locust

[US]/'ləʊkəst/
[UK]/'lokəst/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a type of grasshopper that can travel in large swarms and cause significant damage to crops.

Phrases & Collocations

swarm of locusts

black locust

locust bean

locust tree

locust bean gum

honey locust

Example Sentences

Locusts overran the prairie.

living off locusts and honey.

Locusts ate the country bare.

a plague of locusts; a plague of accidents.

the ferny shadows of locust leaves.

A plague of locusts afflicted the land.

In no time the locusts came down and started eating everything.

A bowl of noodle and a bowl of puffed ginger, a basin of pollywog and a basin of locust are all seemingly by our side.

25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

He yearns to returns the greetings of the large and small insects he meets, such as a locust, a praying mantis, a spittlebug, a luna moth, and some mosquitoes.

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