locusts

noun

  1. 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).

  2. 2

    A fruit or pod of the carob tree.

  3. 3

    Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.

  4. 4

    A cicada.

  5. 5

    A Mainlander.

verb

  1. 1

    To come in a swarm.

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