locust

Meanings

Noun

• Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria (species)).
• A fruit or pod of the carob tree.
• Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.
• A cicada.
• A Mainlander.

Verb

• To come in a swarm.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• American locust (Schistocerca americana (species))
• Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera (species))
• Bombay locust (Nomadacris succincta (species))
• brown locust (Locustana pardalina (species))
• desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria (species))
• Italian locust (Calliptamus italicus (species))
• migratory locust (Locusta migratoria (species))
• Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus (species))
• red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata (species))
• Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus (species)) (extinct)
• spur-throated locust (Austracris guttulosa (species)), of Australia

Origin

• From Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locusta ("locust, crustacean, lobster"). langouste. The sense in "Mainlander" is a , also meaning "locust".