- Annoyance - Annoying person or thing - Blowfly, e.g. - Cane toad, cockroach, eg - Destructive animal - Nuisance - A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
- A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive
distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; --
specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of
the paraffin series.
- A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which
feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats,
skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius,
known as the bacon beetle.