locust
IPA: ɫˈoʊkʌst
noun
- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria).
- (now historical) A fruit or pod of the carob tree.
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.
- A cicada.
- (Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive) A Mainlander.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To come in a swarm.
Advertisement
Examples of "locust" in Sentences
- This is a list of locust species.
- Of an opposite class is the locust.
- It appears to refer to the kosher locust.
- New neighbors typify change to locust point.
- This irritates the locusts and they attack the group.
- Locust swarms fly with the wind at roughly the speed of the wind.
- The grasshopper is one of the smaller species of the locust tribe.
- At the sounding of the fifth trumpet locusts ascend from the abyss.
- Ravenous locusts and a major smallpox epidemic completed the devastation.
- He is buried in the cemetery of the Locust Grove Church of the Brethren in Mt.
Advertisement
Advertisement