locust synonyms

locust

n.

dog-day cicada, short-horned grasshopper, migratory grasshopper, beetle; see grasshopper, insect.

Locusts include: Rocky Mountain, western cricket, stone-cricket, Mormon cricket, seventeen-year, migratory, clumsy, bald, green-striped.

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