pestilence

noun pestilence

• contagion — Contagion is the spreading of a particular disease by someone touching another person who is already affected by the disease.
• contamination — the act or process of contaminating or the state of being contaminated
• fungi — a taxonomic kingdom, or in some classification schemes a division of the kingdom Plantae, comprising all the fungus groups and sometimes also the slime molds.
• fungus — any of a diverse group of eukaryotic single-celled or multinucleate organisms that live by decomposing and absorbing the organic material in which they grow, comprising the mushrooms, molds, mildews, smuts, rusts, and yeasts, and classified in the kingdom Fungi or, in some classification systems, in the division Fungi (Thallophyta) of the kingdom Plantae.
• hydra — A minute freshwater coelenterate with a stalklike tubular body and a ring of tentacles around the mouth.