WordNet: pest, pestilence, pestis, plague

a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• hypernym epidemic disease

• hyponym bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica

• hyponym plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague

• hyponym septicemic plague

pest

• (suomi) rutto (synonyymi)

pestilence

• (suomi) rutto (synonyymi)

pestis

• (suomi) paiserutto (synonyymi)

plague

• (englanti) plague (derivationally related)
• (suomi) rutto (synonyymi)