Lexic.us

Definition of Pestiferous

1. Adjective. Contaminated with infecting organisms. "Obliged to go into infected rooms"

2. Adjective. Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease. "Plaguey fevers"

3. Adjective. Tending to corrupt or pervert.

4. Adjective. Causing irritation or annoyance. "It is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"

Definition of Pestiferous

1. a. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.

Definition of Pestiferous

1. Adjective. containing organisms that cause contagious diseases ¹

2. Adjective. annoying, vexatious ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pestiferous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Pestiferous

1. Relating to or tending to produce a pestilence. Synonym: pestiferous. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestiferous

pestholes pesthouse pesthouses pesticaemia pesticidal pesticidally pesticide pesticide poisoning pesticide residues pesticide synergists

pesticides pestiduct pestiducts pestier pestiest pestiferous (current term) pestiferously pestiferousness pestilation pestilence

pestilences pestilent pestilential pestilentially pestilentious pestilently pestis pestis ambulans pestis bubonica pestis fulminans

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