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| lo·cust [ lṓkəst ] (plural lo·custs) |
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| Definition: |
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1. swarming grasshopper: a migratory grasshopper that often swarms and devours crops and vegetation. Native to: southern Europe, Asia, Africa, North America. Family Acrididae.
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2. insects
Same as seventeen-year locust
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3. North America deciduous N American tree: a thorny deciduous tree with hanging clusters of fragrant flowers, compound leaves, and long seed pods. Native to: North America. Genus Robinia.
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4. pod-bearing tree: a pod-bearing tree of the family that includes the honey locust, swamp locust, and carob. Family Leguminosae.
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5. hard wood: the hard yellowish wood of a locust tree
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| [14th century. Via French< Latin locusta] |
