LOCUST


Meaning of LOCUST in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈlō-kəst ]

noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French locuste, from Latin locusta

Date: 14th century

1. : short-horned grasshopper ; especially : a migratory grasshopper often traveling in vast swarms and stripping the areas passed of all vegetation

2. : cicada

3.

a. : any of various leguminous trees: as

(1) : carob 1

(2) : black locust

(3) : honey locust

b. : the wood of a locust tree

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.