locust
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- noun
- /ˈloʊkəst/
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- Plague, famine, locusts.
- a plague of locusts
So if you think about it, locusts, grasshoppers, can destroy crops.
- So if you think about it, locusts, grasshoppers, can destroy crops.
- A narcissistic person can undo a person's self esteem faster than locusts can take out a field.
- Two degrees more and we jeopardise the food supply for hundreds of millions of people as crops wither, locusts swarm.
- We ate through all that abundance like hungry locust.
- Revelations where the locusts come dressed in armor, wearing crowns of gold.
- We we start behaving like locusts and we just swarm and bypass all of our, our better judgements.
- And these activists descended on these villages like locusts, and their job was to requisition as much food as possible.
- But the classical ideal is otium cum dignitante dignity, meaning not being naked in the desert, not having to, you know, eat locusts and figure out how to.
Examples
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Desert locusts migrate in vast swarms, causing extensive damage to farmers' fields.
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Floods, plagues of locusts.
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His food was locusts and wild honey.
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Every year they come like locusts.
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Like a swarm of locusts.
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So if you think about it, locusts, grasshoppers, can destroy crops.
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The only signs of life were some starlings searching out the last few locusts that had fallen behind.
Fiction book (1990) -
At these numbers, desert locusts easily overwhelm their predators.
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Gangs are marauding like locusts across the land.
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They swarmed like locusts, burning everything in their path, driven by one purpose... to feed.
Synonyms
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A green or brown insect with long back legs that jumps in fields
A grasshopper with short antennae often found in fields
A grasshopper with antennae shorter than its body that often eats plants and can damage crops
Compounds
- US
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8.6
A tall North American tree with long twisted seed pods and hard reddish-brown wood
A large bush or small tree with rough stiff hairs on its stems and clusters of pink flowers
A small tree in the southeastern United States with rough bark, pink flowers and sticky branches
A long pod from the carob tree with sweet pulp used like chocolate and as animal feed
A long seed pod from a tree with sweet pulp and small beans used for food and animal feed
A large noisy insect in North America that appears in big groups about every 17 years
- US
A tree that grows in the swamps of the southern United States with short oval pods and dark heavy wood
A large tree with thorns, many small leaves on each branch, and hanging white flowers
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Etymology
Locust comes from the Latin word locusta, which once named both a big grasshopper and a 'lobster', so you can link it to the familiar word lobster to remember the old name. Think of many hard-bodied creatures moving together — that's why locust now means a grasshopper that travels in huge swarms and destroys crops.