locust
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
locust (plural locusts)
- 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).
- The American locust (Schistocerca americana) (does not swarm).
- The Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera).
- The Bombay locust (Nomadacris succincta).
- The brown locust (Locustana pardalina).
- The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria).
- The Italian locust (Calliptamus italicus).
- The Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus).
- The red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata).
- The Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus); now extinct.
- The spur-throated locust (Austracris guttulosa), of Australia.
- tree locust (Anacridium spp.).
- Anacridium aegyptium (Egyptian locust).
- Anacridium melanorhodon, of Africa.
- Anacridium wernerellum, of Africa.
- A locust tree.
- (proscribed) A cicada.
- French: locuste, criquet
- German: Heuschrecke
- Italian: locusta
- Portuguese: gafanhoto
- Russian: саранча́
- Spanish: langosta
locust (locusts, present participle locusting; past and past participle locusted)
- (intransitive) To come in a swarm.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary
- This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
The hardest, cruellest people in the world,
Come locusting upon us, eat us up,
Confiscate lands, goods, money […]
- This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary
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