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INFESTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A swarm of insects that attack plants
Example:
a plague of grasshoppers
Synonyms:
infestation; plague
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("infestation" is a kind of...):
cloud; swarm (a group of many things in the air or on the ground)
Derivation:
infest (invade in great numbers)
infest (occupy in large numbers or live on a host)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being invaded or overrun by parasites
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("infestation" is a kind of...):
fullness (the condition of being filled to capacity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infestation"):
trichuriasis (infestation by a roundworm; common in tropical areas with poor sanitation)
trombiculiasis (infestation with chiggers)
lousiness; pediculosis (infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching)
opisthorchiasis (infestation with flukes obtained from eating raw fish; common in eastern Asia)
onchocerciasis; river blindness (infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America)
myiasis (infestation of the body by the larvae of flies (usually through a wound or other opening) or any disease resulting from such infestation)
helminthiasis (infestation of the body with parasitic worms)
echinococcosis; hydatid disease; hydatidosis (infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms))
coccidiosis ((veterinary medicine) infestation with coccidia)
ascariasis (infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms)
acariasis; acaridiasis; acariosis (infestation with itch mites)
myositis trichinosa; trichiniasis; trichinosis (infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted)
bilharzia; bilharziasis; schistosomiasis (an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected)
enterobiasis (an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by the pinworm Enterobius vermicularis; occurs especially in children)
dracunculiasis; Guinea worm; Guinea worm disease (a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin)
fasciolopsiasis (infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia)
fascioliasis; fasciolosis (infestation with the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica; liver damage sometimes occurs; related to liver rot)
Derivation:
infest (invade in great numbers)
infest (occupy in large numbers or live on a host)
