locust in English

noun
1
a large and 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 that cause extensive damage to crops.
Vast swarms of locusts have swept over South Sulawesi in the past few days, destroying rice and secondary crops.
2
the large edible pod of some plants of the pea family, in particular the carob bean, which is said to resemble a locust.
Others, like gum guar (obtained from the cluster bean), or locust bean gum (from the locust bean ), come from seedpods.
3
any of a number of pod-bearing trees of the pea family, in particular the carob tree and the black locust.
We look up at the sky through a fringe of leaves belonging to a locust tree or a mimosa, the rows of lacy leaves forming a mantilla overhead.

Use "locust" in a sentence

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1. That the swarming locust, the unwinged locust, the voracious locust, and the devouring locust have eaten,

2. Gleditsia japonica Miq.: Japanese locust absolute / Japanese locust extract / Japanese locust oil / Japanese locust tincture

3. A Locust Band

4. Blood and locust?

5. And what the unwinged locust has left, the voracious locust has eaten.

6. 4 What was left by the devouring locust, the swarming locust has eaten;+

7. Common trees with Bipinnate leaves include honey locust, black locust, pecan, and hickory

8. And what was left by the swarming locust, the unwinged locust has eaten;

9. RAvenous Locust is a weapon mod

10. If you look up these four words; palmerworm, locust, Cankerworm, and caterpillar, you will find three of them mean “locust” and the other one means a “young locust

11. Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds:

12. – – Mucilages and thickeners, whether or not modified, derived from locust beans, locust bean seeds or guar seeds

13. The locust shrills his song of heat.

14. Welcome to Barracudas Locust Point Tavern fun site

15. The honey locust often has Bipinnate leaves

16. Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet

17. 14 We can also learn from the locust.

18. And your officers like a locust swarm.

19. The yellow locust is another matter entirely.

20. A locust is a kind of destructive insect.

21. 17 Your guards are like the locust,

22. Locust had stripped the leaves off the trees.

23. This is the egg cluster of a locust.

24. Such as all the different sorts of locust.

25. This illustration shows a vertical section through the locust.

26. The young locust strips off its skin and flies away.

27. Other trees are downright mysterious, such as the yellow locust.

28. Welcome to Buckram Stables Cafe located in Locust Valley, NY

29. 14 The locust plague was and is a harbinger of something.

30. Kevin C Roth 32, 227 Locust for aggravated battery to police and retail theft at Save-a-Lot at 1130 Locust… QPD Blotter for March 20, 2021

31. In the absence of these preferred hosts, Bagworm will eat the foliage of just about any tree: fir, spruce, pine, hemlock, sweetgum, sycamore, honey locust, and black locust.

32. Our GENU Refined Locust Bean Gum gives it Creaminess and meltability

33. □ In what way has a locust plague afflicted Christendom since 1919?

34. The best known species is probably the desert locust (S. gregaria).

35. Locust bean gum contains long stretched tubiform cells, separated or slightly interspaced.

36. He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.

37. Every inn had a picturesque name — the Black Locust Inn, the Blueberry Inn.

38. The food of cattle egret was mostly spider, locust, cricket and frog.

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40. The desert locust may even stretch this to 600 miles [1,000 km].

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42. About Arless R. Lewis LPC (he/him) is a counselor in Locust Grove, GA

43. Other names: Cicadas are also called 17 year Locust, Cicada insects and Periodical Cicada

44. Cicada and Locust Protection and Control: Insecticides are ineffective on these large insects

45. Barracudas Locust Point is a classic American restaurant and bar, located in historic South Baltimore

46. Can summon mongrel things that he can cast locust swarm on, which buffs their damage.

47. Thus, in 1912 and 1913, he fought the Argentinian locust plagues with coccobacillus experiments.

48. PSV disease gradients were often observed from black locust mosaic trees into peanut fields.

49. 21 Every inn had a picturesque name — the Black Locust Inn, the Blueberry Inn.

50. Agoraphobic Nosebleed and the Locust have solicited remixes from digital hardcore producers and noise musicians.