locust
Meaning of locust
noun
- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria).
- A fruit or pod of the carob tree.
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.
- A cicada.
- A Mainlander.
verb
To come in a swarm.
Information about locust
- The plural form of locust is: locusts.
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Hyphenation of locust
lo-cust
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- locust is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of locust
- French: locuste
- German: Wanderheuschrecke
- Italian: locusta
- Portuguese: locustídeo
- Spanish: langosta
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