英语词汇“locust”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

lo·cust

(lōkəst)

1. Any of various short-horned grasshoppers that sometimes migrate in immense swarms, devouring vegetation and crops.

2. A cicada, especially a periodical cicada.

a. Any of several trees of the pea family bearing long pods, especially the black locust, honey locust, and carob.

b. The wood of any of these trees.

[Middle English, from Old French locuste, from Latin locusta. Sense 3a, probably from the resemblance of a carob pod to a grasshopper and the use of both as subsistence food in drier regions of the Near East.]

locust

black locust

Robinia pseudoacacia

单词	locust
释义	lo·cust (lōkəst) n. 1. Any of various short-horned grasshoppers that sometimes migrate in immense swarms, devouring vegetation and crops. 2. A cicada, especially a periodical cicada. 3. a. Any of several trees of the pea family bearing long pods, especially the black locust, honey locust, and carob. b. The wood of any of these trees. [Middle English, from Old French locuste, from Latin locusta. Sense 3a, probably from the resemblance of a carob pod to a grasshopper and the use of both as subsistence food in drier regions of the Near East.] locust black locust Robinia pseudoacacia
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