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Caltrop is a perennial herb that can infest a wide variety of crops and pastures.
Demons and other night-fevers flowed like a repellant ooze to infest the night.
A few yards away, a South African officer has found one of the small but highly poisonous scorpions which infest the area.
Obstruction and interference continue to infest the expansion-crazed NHL, but Roberts, Corson and Tucker can muck it up.
Greater Poison potions can be used to combat insects or parasites that infest a hive.
Sawflies infest fruitlets and cause these to drop prematurely after which the pests pupate in the topsoil.
Angel is a fumigator who visits a wine growing area in order to kill the woodlice that infest the soil.
Such resistance reduces the cost of hop production and the amount of fungicides used because the fungus is not able to infest resistant plants.
Although a native termite colony might occasionally infest a tree, it's almost invariably a dead one, Messenger says.
Axarus larvae almost always infest varved clay deposits that are remnants of Pleistocene glacial lakes.
These bugs may infest your bathroom, and jump out of unexpected corners of the closet, but they adhere to the policy of non-violence.
It is being administered medication and a mosquito net has been placed around it so that flies do not infest the wound.
Aphids, scale, or spider mites may infest a tree, especially if it's weak from poor growing conditions.
Our landlord had neglected to provide screens, and I was unable to open the windows, lest flies infest the house.
Chagas' disease is a complex zoonosis, primarily transmitted by triatomine bugs, which infest poor quality housing.
Sycamore lace bugs attack sycamore primarily, but they may also infest ash, hickory, and mulberry.
The trick is to kill pest insects without killing the taste or texture of the food they infest.
This not only lowers yield, it creates a terrible weed problem as grasses and broadleaves infest the killed strips.
If lice infest the eyebrows or eyelashes, the eyes may also become inflamed.
The tulip race will also infest Narcissus, whereas another race commonly found in Narcissus does not breed on tulip.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Probably several other species of ixodid, known to infest other animals, behave in the same way.
The parasitical animals that infest the human body are referred to under the heads acari and Pediculi.
It extinguishes every dirty spark of malice and envy, which are but too apt to infest me.
Insects do not seem to infest it as they do the ostreatus and the sapidus.
They infest desert places, and are nocturnal in their habits.
From them have come the many species of shark that now infest our ocean.
Other species eat most of the scales which infest fruit and forest trees.
Others are getting the worms and insects that infest the trees.
Also, the large maggots with black heads that infest biscuit.
You are too green to cope with the sharpers that infest those boats.
The alertness and rapacity of the hordes which infest these rapids, were immediately apparent.
A load of miscreants from goodness knows where, who infest me with vermin.
I was struck by the immense number of alligators which infest the river.
Your Excellency cannot be ignorant that the ladrones infest the savannahs.
I fatten a good deal of poultry, but I have to buy grain, and you cannot imagine the army of rats that infest this place.
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
The linkage has allowed nuisance species such as the round goby and zebra and quagga mussels to escape the Great Lakes and infest the Mississippi and other waterways.
Immediately the moon shone out as brightly as if all the troubles of the world, and all the wickedness and the ugliness that infest human life, were past and gone forever.
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