• (a.) Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. • (a.) Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/pestiferous/
Synonym for pestilential ... Relating to or tending to produce a pestilence. ... Synonym: pestiferous. ... (05 Mar 2000) ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
Pes·tif'er·ous adjective [ Latin pestiferus , pestifer ; pestis pest + ferre to bear: confer French pestifère .] 1. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. 'Poor, pestiferous... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/65
pestiferous 1. Producing or breeding infectious disease; bringing or bearing disease. 2. Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease. 3. Morally evil or deadly; pernicious. 4. Bothersome; annoying. Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1615/