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How to pronounce “locust”
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Pronunciation guide for locust
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- Practice the English pronunciation of locust with real speech in context.
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- Definition summary
- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria). [from 14th c.]
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How to pronounce locust
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Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “locust”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria). [from 14th c.]
- (now historical) A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua). [from 16th c.]
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree. [from 17th c.]
- A cicada. [from 18th c.]
- (Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Mainlander.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A dose of laudanum.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To come in a swarm.
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