locust Definition
lo·cust (lō′kəst)
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 flowers
- the yellowish, hard, durable wood of this tree
- any honeylocust
- carob (sense )
Etymology: ME < L locusta, prob. akin to lacerta, lizard
locust Synonyms
locust
n.
Locusts include: Rocky Mountain, western cricket, stone-cricket, Mormon cricket, seventeen-year, migratory, clumsy, bald, green-striped.
locust Usage Examples
Converse of object
- eat: Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.
- bring: It blew across the land all that day and night, and when morning came, the east wind had brought the locusts.
- swarm: What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- control: This research is providing information that enhances our ability to predict swarming, and so offers the potential of earlier intervention to control locusts.
- plague: In las vegas plague locusts with that he was people's hands.
- see: Here we see the rice locust and red dragonfly on bamboo canes with pinks and hibiscus flowers.
Adjective modifier
- fried: One evening, after eating too many fried locusts, he began day-dreaming and then told his dream as if it had really happened.
- black: Of these, black locust has very durable timber.
- 'cosmic: The publication of 'Cosmic Locusts ' is certainly a tribute to the success of the process thus far.
- more: The environmental impact of the toxic waste is to create a new breed of more savory locust.
- migratory: Colin Plant informs me that he has actually visited the Cambridgeshire establishment and has noted many escapes of Migratory Locusts in the surrounding hedgerows.
- Black: Black locust, for protection against negative outside influences, including " psychic attack " .
Modifies a noun
- swarm: In the north of the country, however, farmers face a further threat from locust swarms.
- gum: Consumers are urged to check the labeling to see which contain the locust bean gum.
- invasion: A repeat of last year's locust invasion would be catastrophic.
- bean: Consumers are urged to check the labeling to see which contain the locust bean gum.
- plague: DEC Niger crisis appeal The combination of drought and a locust plague has left 2.5m people in Niger struggling to survive acute food shortages.
- outbreak: Some observers claim it is the worst locust outbreak for 25 years.
Noun used with modifier
Browse dictionary entries near locust
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