Vermin: Definition and part of speech

Vermin

  1. n. sing. & pl. Hence, in contempt, noxious human beings.
  2. n. sing. & pl. An animal, in general.
  3. n. sing. & pl. A noxious or mischievous animal; especially, noxious little animals or insects, collectively, as squirrels, rats, mice, flies, lice, bugs, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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