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.
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