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Definition of Infests
1. infest [v] - See also: infest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infests
Literary usage of Infests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"The dependence of the beetle for food upon the bark of the tree which it infests
has suggested the use of poisons for its destruction, and some tests made ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"May it be the fate of every Tory scoundrel that now infests this once happy land,
to make his exit out of America before the present month is closed.1 AT ..."
3. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic Delivered at King's by Thomas Watson, David Francis Condie (1855)
"... infests ; conditions of its production; its effects upon the human body;
influence of soils in evolving it. You will observe that ague resembles several ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"... Worm which infests the common Home-Fly (Musca domestica) in Bombay. By HJ
CARTER, Esq., F.KS. [Plate IA figs. 1-4.] IN November last (1859), ..."
5. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"VIII. Some Account of a Species of A.'cams (?) which infests Butterflies. By the
Rev. WT BREE, MA Sir, HAVING, in the preceding article, given a list of ..."
6. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"A yet smaller species, the semut katu, infests the skins of specimens prepared
for the museum, but do no damage beyond clearing away any minute fragments of ..."
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