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Definition of Pests
1. pest [n] - See also: pest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pests
Literary usage of Pests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1909)
"I will now call upon Mr. EM Ehrhorn. the general, deputy in charge of the quarantine
work, for a paper upon insect pests. NEW pests WE SHOULD GUARD AGAINST. ..."
2. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Insect pests of indigo. 445 Insect pests of the sugarcane. ... 447 Insect pests
of opium. Calcutta, Ind. Mas. Notes, 5,1903, (184- 185, with pi.). [4419]. ..."
3. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"Florida, pests from, intercepted in California, 177, 236, 864, 399, 475; whiteflies
on citrus in, 887, 421; Anasa andre-eu on Cucurbitaceae in, 451; ..."
4. The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States by Charles Richard Van Hise (1918)
"It is almost impossible to completely destroy the insect pests. ... This problem
of the control of insect pests is one which will require long continuing ..."
5. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"Eats a few insect pests. Crow. Eats grain, and eggs and Eats insect pests, ...
Eats grain, and eggs Eats some insect pests, and nestlings of valuable birds. ..."
6. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"water is good, for it also appears to destroy the pests which devour the ...
Of the pests which infest pot-herbs. 8 As for pests,—radish is attacked by ..."
7. The Resources of California: Comprising Agriculture, Mining, Geography by John Shertzer Hittell (1863)
"pests of the Farmer.—Certain "pests" of the farmer must be mentioned here, among
which are the ... The grasshoppers are the greatest pests of the farmer in ..."
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