animate being vs pest

pest vs animate being

animate being and pest both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
animate being	Yes	No	No	No
pest	Yes	No	No	No

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

animate being: 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 animate being 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.

animate being (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

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