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Meaning
Noun
●
In Crickets and grasshoppers:
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).
●
A
fruit
or
pod
of the
carob
tree.
●
In Legumes:
Any of various often
leguminous
trees
and
shrubs
, especially of the
genera
Robinia and Gleditsia; the
locust
tree.
●
In Cicadas:
A cicada.
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In Hong Kong English:
A Mainlander.
Verb
●
To
come in
a swarm.
Name
●
A surname.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
locust
English
langouste
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
locusta
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
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