pestis

Noun pestis has 1 sense

• pestis(n = noun.state) pest, pestilence, 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;
is a kind of epidemic disease
has particulars: bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica, plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, septicemic plague