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*The primary meaning of pest is an animal which has characteristics which people regard as being injurious or harmful. It can also refer to plants ( weeds). Pesticides are chemicals designed to kill, retard growth, or prevent reproduction of pests. (Please see also: Pest control.)

By extension, pest can refer also to a contagious deadly disease, a pestilence such as the Bubonic plague.

By further analogy, pest in the slang sense can refer to an annoying person, especially one difficult to get rid of.

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Pest, Hungary is also a former city in Hungary, which merged with Buda and Óbuda to become Budapest.
Pest county is one of the 19 present counties of Hungary.

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Topics: Pesticide, Pestilence, Pest (animal), Pest (county), Pest...

PesticideA pesticide is a chemical used to control, to repel, to attract or to kill pests, for example, insects, weeds, birds, mammals, fish, or microbes, that are considered a nuisance. Pesticides are usually, but not always, poisons. Examples of pesticides herbi	PestThe primary meaning of pest is an animal which has characteristics which people regard as being injurious or harmful. It can also refer to plants ( weeds). Pesticides are chemicals designed to kill, retard growth, or prevent reproduction of pests. Please	PestilenceA pestilence is an epidemic or even a pandemic of a virulent and highly contagious disease. Cholera or Bubonic plague are examples of pestilence. Pestilence is also one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, along with War, Famine, and Death. Pestilence
Pest (animal)A pest is an animal which has characteristics which people regard as injurious or unwanted. It is possible for an animal to be a pest in one setting but beneficial or domesticated in another (for example, European rabbits introduced to Australia caused ec	Pest (county)Pest is the name of a county megye in central Hungary. It covers an area of 6394 km², and has a population of 1,077,300 (2003). It is located around the national capital Budapest. It shares borders with Slovakia and the Hungarian counties Nograd, Heves, J	Pest, HungaryPest (in Slovak PeSt pron. Pesht was an independent city in Hungary located on the East bank of the Danube River. The first written mentions of the city are found dating to 1148; however, an ancient Celtic settlement and later Roman settlements existed in
Pesto	Pesticide misuse	Pesticide poisoning
Pestújhely	Pestilence (band)	Pest control
Pestalozzi	Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun	Pesterzsébet

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