(a.) Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.
Example Sentences:
(1) More research is needed on the biological and physical and cultural control of these pestiferous insects.
(2) We suggest that insecticidal treatment directed against immature P. alternata breeding in such habitats need not penetrate to a depth of more than a few centimeters to affect almost all of the population of this pestiferous insect.
(3) Greg Mills , director of the Brenthurst Foundation, a Johannesburg-based thinktank close to Banda, said: "Regardless of who is in power, something more than just regimes will have to change in Malawi, otherwise donor assistance and fragility will be forever, along with a pestiferous cycle of state contracts, corruption, imports, backhanders, public sector procurement and vested interests."
(4) Cholinesterase (ChE) activity was measured in the central nervous system (CNS) and in the digestive gland of the pestiferous land snail Achatinafulica Bowdich, by the method of Huegra et al.
(5) Although there are an estimated 4,000 or more species of chironomid midges worldwide, less than 100 species have been reported to be pestiferous.