Meaning Of The Word Locust

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locust
countable noun: Locusts are large insects that live mainly in hot countries. They fly in large groups and eat crops.

locust in American English
any of various large grasshoppers; specif., a migratory grasshopper often traveling in great swarms and destroying nearly all vegetation in areas visited
noun: any of several grasshoppers of the family Acrididae, having short antennae and commonly migrating in swarms that strip the vegetation from large areas

locust in British English
noun: any of numerous orthopterous insects of the genera Locusta, Melanoplus, etc, such as L. migratoria, of warm and tropical regions of the Old World, which travel in vast swarms, stripping large areas of vegetation

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