locust
English
Etymology
From Middle English locuste, locust, from Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”) either directly or through Anglo-Norman locuste and Middle French locuste.[1]
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
locust (plural locusts)
- Any of the grasshoppers, usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation.
- especially, the migratory locust (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- American locust (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.) (does not swarm)
- Australian plague locust(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- brown locust (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- desert locust(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- Moroccan locust (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- red locust (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Rocky Mountain locust (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.) – extinct
- spur-throated locust(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. (Egyptian locust)
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., of Africa.
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., of Africa
- A locust tree.
Usage notes
- sometimes confused with locus
Translations
type of grasshopper
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Verb
locust (third-person singular simple present locusts, present participle locusting, simple past and past participle locusted)
- (intransitive) To come in a swarm.
- (Can we date this quote by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
The hardest, cruellest people in the world,
Come locusting upon us, eat us up,
Confiscate lands, goods, money […]
- This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
- (Can we date this quote by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
References
- ^ “locust”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
locust
- Alternative form of locuste
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