pesti-, pest- +

A pesticide compound that is rapidly biodegradable with a half life of a few days.

A pesticide compound that remains in the environment for relatively long periods.

The extent of its persistence depends on several factors; such as, the tkype of soil, iots moisture, temperature, and pH, and the extent of cultivation and cover crops.

1. Plague; pestilence.
2. Any harmful or annoying organism; especially, an infestive animal; such as, chicken pest and fowl pest, now known as "avian influenza".

1. A house, or hospital, for people who are infected with any pestilential disease (tending to produce a pestilence or a disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease).
2. Formerly a hospital where people suffering from infectious diseases were once confined and sometimes treated.

The term pest was once synonymous with the plague and more generally referred to any dread contagious disease.

The presence of plague organisms in the blood.

A substance for destroying pests; especially, insects.

The amount of any pesticide remaining on or in food or beverages intended for human consumption.

1. Producing or breeding infectious disease; bringing or bearing disease.
2. Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease.
3. Morally evil or deadly; pernicious.
4. Bothersome; annoying.

1. A reference to the spread and cause of an epidemic disease.
2. Characterized by the contamination of infecting organisms.
3. Relating to causing, irritating, or annoying.

Pertaining to a particularly fatal epidemic disease; especially, in the past, to bubonic plague.

1. A usually fatal epidemic disease; especially, bubonic plague.
2. A pernicious, evil influence, or agent.

Relating to or tending to produce a pestilence (disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating).

The most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; synonym: "bubonic plague".

Any severe and often rapidly fatal form of plague.

Bubonic plague or pneumonic plague; the typical sever form of plague.