locust
/ˈloʊ.kəst/IPA: /L OW1 K AH0 S T/
noun
- 1
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).
- 2
A fruit or pod of the carob tree.
- 3
Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.
- 4
A cicada.
- 5
A Mainlander.
verb
- 1
To come in a swarm.
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