Definition of locusts Locusts

/lowˈkʌsts/ - [lowkusts] -

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  • locusts (Noun)
    Plural of locust.

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Plural: locusts

locust - migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae
  acridid, short-horned grasshopper grasshopper with short antennae
  locusta migratoria, migratory locust Old World locust that travels in vast swarms stripping large areas of vegetation
locust - hardwood from any of various locust trees
  wood a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; "metal woods are now standard"
locust - any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
  locust tree
  tree English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)
  fabaceae, family fabaceae, family leguminosae, legume family, leguminosae, pea family a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae
  courbaril, hymenaea courbaril West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood
  locust migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae
  gleditsia aquatica, swamp locust, water locust honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
  gleditsia triacanthos, honey locust tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World
  robinia pseudoacacia, yellow locust, black locust large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • locust (n.)
    Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.
  • locust (n.)
    The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • locust
    Migratory grasshoppers of the order Orthoptera of warm regions having short antennae.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • locust
    lō′kust, n. a migratory winged insect, in shape like the grasshopper, highly destructive to vegetation.—v.i. (rare) to lay waste like locusts. [L. locusta.]
  • locust
    lō′kust, n. a tree with thorny branches and dense clusters of white, heavily-scented flowers, found in the U.S.: the carob-tree.—ns. Locus′ta, the spikelet of grasses:—pl. Locus′tæ; Lō′cust-bean, the sweet pod of the carob-tree

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  • Locust is a kind of grasshopper which forms swarms. Such swarms are usually made of very many locusts. They do a lot of damage to the places where they pass, by eating the crops.

    In the Bible, locust swarms are described as a plague.

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