Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pestis

1 sense of pestis

Sense 1
plague, pestilence, pest, pestis -- (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)
       => epidemic disease -- (any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people)