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plural locusts
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). examples
(now historical) A fruit or pod of the carob tree. quotations
Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.
1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I
Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree. examples
A cicada. examples
(Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive) A Mainlander. examples
third-person singular simple present locusts, present participle locusting, simple past and past participle locusted
(intransitive) To come in a swarm. quotations examples
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 […]
1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., (please specify the page)