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Webster 1913 Edition
Locust
1.
(Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family
Acrididæ
, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda migratoria
, syn. Pachytylus migratoria
, and Acridium perigrinum
, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers
. See Grasshopper
. ☞ These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the south of Asia as to devour every green thing; and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud. In the United States the harvest flies are improperly called locusts. See
Cicada
. Locust beetle
(Zool.)
, a longicorn beetle (
– Cyllene robiniæ
), which, in the larval state, bores holes in the wood of the locust tree. Its color is brownish black, barred with yellow. Called also locust borer
. Locust bird
(Zool.)
the rose-colored starling or pastor of India. See
– Pastor
. Locust hunter
(Zool.)
, an African bird; the beefeater.
2.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Bot.)
The locust tree. See
Locust Tree
(definition, note, and phrases). Locust bean
(Bot.)
, a commercial name for the sweet pod of the carob tree.
Webster 1828 Edition
Locust
LO'CUST
,Noun.
LO'CUST
,Noun.
Definition 2024
locust
locust
English
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 (Locusta migratoria)
- American locust (Schistocerca americana) (does not swarm)
- Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera)
- Bombay locust (Nomadacris succincta)
- brown locust (Locustana pardalina)
- desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria)
- Italian locust (Calliptamus italicus)
- Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus)
- red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata)
- Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) – extinct
- spur-throated locust (Austracris guttulosa) - Australia
- Tree locusts (Anacridium spp.)
- A locust tree.
- (Hong Kong, informal, derogatory) A person from the People's Republic of China, as opposed to someone from Hong Kong.
Usage notes
- sometimes confused with locus
Translations
type of grasshopper
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