Definition of Pestiferous
carrying infection or disease
Examples of Pestiferous in a sentence
Because they are pestiferous, infected mosquitos can easily spread disease from area to area. 🔊
Ticks are pestiferous and carry both Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. 🔊
In many tropical climates, pestiferous insects infect the people and make them sick. 🔊
Bedbugs are pestiferous and carry a disease that slowly attacks the hosts intestines and heart. 🔊
After years of research, scientists now know that the bubonic plague was caused by pestiferous rats. 🔊
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