How to pronounce “locust”

Meaning

• [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). [from 14th c.]
• (now historical) A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua). [from 16th c.]
• Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree. [from 17th c.]
• A cicada. [from 18th c.]
• (Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Mainlander.
• (UK, slang, obsolete) A dose of laudanum.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To come in a swarm.

Practice Nearby Words

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