Locust Definition

lōkəst
locusts
noun
locusts
Any of various large grasshoppers; specif., a migratory grasshopper often traveling in great swarms and causing extensive damage to vegetation.
Webster's New World
A cicada, especially a periodical cicada.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
A spiny tree (Robinia pseudoacacia) of the pea family, native to the E or central U.S. and having long, pendulous racemes of fragrant white flowers.
Webster's New World
The yellowish, hard, durable wood of this tree.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Locust

Noun

Singular:
locust
Plural:
locusts

Origin of Locust

  • Middle English from Old French locuste from Latin locusta Sense 3a, probably from the resemblance of a carob pod to a grasshopper and the use of both as subsistence food in drier regions of the Near East

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French langouste, from Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster").

    From Wiktionary

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