English Dictionary

locust

/ˈləʊ.kəst/

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).

The locusts swarmed the fields, devouring all the crops.

意味（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).

意味（2）

(now historical) A fruit or pod of the carob tree.

Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

A cicada.

意味（5）

(Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive) A Mainlander.