English Dictionary

locust

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈləʊ.kəst/

名詞

歴史的 香港英語 軽蔑的 攻撃的

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).

日本語の意味

イナゴ（農作物や植生に甚大な被害を与える、群れを成して移動するバッタ目の昆虫）

A single locust can strip the leaves from a young wheat field in hours, but when a swarm arrives the damage becomes catastrophic.

一匹のイナゴでも数時間で若い小麦畑の葉をむしり取ることがありますが、群れが押し寄せれば被害は壊滅的になります。

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.

locusts （ plural ）