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locust
- IPA[ˈlōkəst]
美式
- 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.;the periodical cicada.
noun: locust, plural noun: locusts
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- 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.
- ▪ US the periodical cicada.
- 2. the large edible pod of some plants of the pea family, in particular the carob bean, which is said to resemble a locust.
- 3. any of a number of pod-bearing trees of the pea family, in particular the carob tree and the black locust.
- a North American tree with compound leaves and dense, hanging clusters of fragrant white ...
Oxford American Dictionary
- a spiny tree of the pea family, grown as an ornamental for its fernlike foliage.
Oxford Dictionary
- years of hardship or poverty.
Oxford Dictionary
- a tree of the pea family with long branched thorns, although a thornless variety has been ...
Oxford American Dictionary
- the nymph of the northern species of the periodical cicada.
Oxford American Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈləʊkəst]
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- a large, mainly tropical grasshopper with strong powers of flight. It is usually solitary, but ...
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