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Meaning of locusts

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locusts

noun

Definitions

  1. 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).

  2. A fruit or pod of the carob tree.

  3. Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.

  4. A cicada.

verb

Definitions

  1. To come in a swarm.