DuckCorp Dico

Found one definition

1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   pestis
       n 1: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by
            Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by
            the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal [syn:
            plague, pestilence, pest, pestis]