Definitions for locust

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locust lo·cust

Spelling: [loh-kuh st]

IPA: /ˈloʊ kəst/

Locust is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in locust (clostu).

Definitions for locust

noun

1. Also called acridid, short-horned grasshopper. any of several grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, having short antennae and commonly migrating in swarms that strip the vegetation from large areas.
2. any of various cicadas, as the seventeen-year locust.
3. any of several North American trees belonging to the genus Robinia, of the legume family, especially R. pseudoacacia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of fragrant white flowers.
4. the durable wood of this tree.
5. any of various other trees, as the carob and the honey locust.

Origin of locust

1150-1200; Middle English Latin locusta grasshopper

Examples for locust

He is greedy as the locust, wily as the serpent, and ferocious as the panther.

The ceremony closed with the planting of a Virginia locust by the Doctor.

Captain Kendrick sat upright on the settee, beneath the locust tree.

Wiggle appeared to claim the locust as a souvenir of the scout's magic.

She did not go back to locust the next day, nor for weeks after that.

The cicada, it will be remembered, is what is commonly called a locust.

This plant is very common on the locust trees about Chillicothe.

Clark joined in the argument from the blackness under the locust tree.

The creature most commonly called a locust is a cicada, or harvest fly.

This spring, Israel found itself in the midst of a locust invasion.