locust
Pronunciation: /ˈləʊ.kəst/
The English word “locust” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).
- A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
- A cicada.
- A mainlander.
- A dose of laudanum.
verb
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locustam (“locust, crustacean, lobster”, accusative of locusta). Doublet of langouste. Noun sense 3 (“kind of tree”), originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic…
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