Today's Word "pestiferous"
Bearing or bringing disease
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pestiferous \pes-TIF-uh-ruhs\ (adjective) - 1 : Bearing or bringing disease. 2 : Infected with or contaminated by a pestilential disease. 3 : Morally evil or dangerous to society; pernicious. 4 : Bothersome; troublesome; annoying.
"Equatorial climate and pestiferous conditions made Guayaquil such an unattractive port in the past that it was not until well into the twentieth century, when sanitary conditions were established, that it became a modern city handling extensive commerce with the rest of the world." -- Thomas E. Weil, 'Countries of the World'
Pestiferous is from Latin pestifer , "pestilential," from pestis , "pestilence," + -fer , "bearing."
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