LOCUST
\lˈə͡ʊkʌst], \lˈəʊkʌst], \l_ˈəʊ_k_ʌ_s_t]\
Definitions of LOCUST
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / 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.
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The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).
By Oddity Software
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Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / 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.
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The locust tree. See Tree (definition, note, and phrases).
By Noah Webster.
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Plant-eating orthopterans having hindlegs adapted for jumping. There are two main families: Acrididae and Romaleidae. Some of the more common genera are: Melanoplus, the most common grasshopper; Conocephalus, the eastern meadow grasshopper; and Pterophylla, the true katydid.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A destructive winged insect resembling the grasshopper, which travels from place to place; a tree of the bean family.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A migratory winged insect, in shape like the grasshopper, highly destructive to vegetation: a name of several plants and trees.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman