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locust
noun
- any of various large grasshoppers; specif., a migratory grasshopper often traveling in great swarms and destroying nearly all vegetation in areas visited
- seventeen-year locust
- 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 flowersalso called black locust or yellow locust
- the yellowish, hard, durable wood of this tree
- 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
- any honeylocust
- carob (sense )
See locust in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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