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noun
- 1. a large, mainly tropical grasshopper with strong powers of flight. It is usually solitary, but from time to time there is a population explosion and it migrates in vast swarms which cause extensive damage to vegetation.
- 2. the large edible pod of some plants of the pea family, in particular the carob bean, which is said to resemble a locust.
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LOCUST definition: 1. a large insect found in hot areas that flies in large groups and destroys plants and crops: 2…. Learn more.
The meaning of LOCUST is short-horned grasshopper; especially : a migratory grasshopper often traveling in vast swarms and stripping the areas passed of all vegetation. How to use locust in a sentence.
Locusts are the swarming phase of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstances become more abundant and change their behaviour and habits, becoming gregarious. [2] [3] [4] Desert locusts in copulation.
Locust definition: any of several grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, having short antennae and commonly migrating in swarms that strip the vegetation from large areas.. See examples of LOCUST used in a sentence.
LOCUST meaning: 1. a large insect found in hot areas that flies in large groups and destroys plants and crops: 2…. Learn more.
4 meanings: 1. any of numerous orthopterous insects of the genera Locusta, Melanoplus, etc, such as L. migratoria, of warm and.... Click for more definitions.
5 days ago · locust, (family Acrididae), any of a group of insects (order Orthoptera) that are distributed worldwide, the common name of which generally refers to the group of short-horned grasshoppers that often increase greatly in numbers and migrate long distances in destructive swarms.
