animal vs pest

animal and pest both are nouns.

animal is an adjective but pest is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
animal	Yes	Yes	No	No
pest	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pest is a hyponym of animal; that is, pest is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than animal:

animal: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
pest: any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

Other hyponyms of animal include critter, creepy-crawly, darter, peeper, homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm, ectotherm, poikilotherm, range animal, varment, varmint, scavenger, work animal, domestic animal, domesticated animal, feeder, migrator, molter, moulter, pet, stayer, stunt, marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature, female, male, adult, offspring, young, pureblood, purebred, thoroughbred, giant, survivor, mutant, herbivore, insectivore, acrodont, pleurodont, zooplankton, conceptus, embryo, fertilized egg, chordate, invertebrate, metazoan, omnivore, predator, predatory animal, prey, quarry, game, hexapod, biped, larva, racer, fictional animal, captive, mate, albino, spirit animal.

animal (noun)	pest (noun)
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement	any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
	a persistently annoying person
	any epidemic disease with a high death rate
	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

animal (adjective)	pest (adjective)
marked by the appetites and passions of the body

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