locust
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.
Other meanings
A fruit or pod of a carob tree Ceratonia siliqua.
Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
Kinds of locust
- migratory locust
- migratory grasshopper
Word history
From Middle French "locuste".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “locust” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.