| 单词 | desert locust |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdesert locust 1. Any of various large orthopteran insects of the grasshopper family ( Acrididae); esp. any such insect which periodically changes its behaviour to form large swarms which can travel long distances and devastate crops and other vegetation; spec. Locusta migratoria (also called migratory locust) and Schistocerca gregaria (more fully desert locust). Frequently with distinguishing word.In the Hebrew Scriptures there are nine different names for the insect or for particular species or varieties; in English Bible translations, they are sometimes translated as ‘locust’, sometimes as ‘beetle’, ‘grasshopper’, ‘caterpillar’, ‘palmerworm’, etc. The precise application of the several names is unknown.Locusts are used as food in many countries.red-legged locust, Rocky Mountain locust: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Acrididae > oedipoda migratoria (locust) locustc1350 locustaa1398 langosta1881 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Locustidae > member of (locust) grasshopOE langustec1200 skippera1325 locustc1350 honeysucklea1387 honeysucka1398 lungoutec1485 grasshopper1526 acrida1557 ophiomach1609 locustid1878 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > flesh of other animals > [noun] > locust langustec1200 locustaa1398 locust1526 a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 127 Weste was his [sc. St John the Baptist's] wunienge,..wilde hunie and languste his mete.] c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 69 (MED) And þe locustes semen as it weren horses þat weren diȝth to bataile. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms lxxvii. 46 He ȝaf to rust the frutis of hem; and ther trauailis to a locust [1535 Coverdale the greshopper, 1611 King James the locust; L. lucustae]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6041 (MED) Þan sent drightin a litel beist, O toth es noght vnfelunest, Locust it hatt. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxvii. §51. 285 Locustis ere bestis that fleghis and etis kornes. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. iii. f. iijv Hys meate was locustes, and wylde hony. 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xi. 22 Euen these of them ye may eate: the Locust, after his kinde, and the Bald-locust after his kinde. View more context for this quotation 1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1684) i. 184 Those great Multitudes of Locusts wherewith divers Countries have bin Destroyed. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 1076 A darksom Cloud of Locusts swarming down. View more context for this quotation 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 18 Thick as the Locust on the land of Nile. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 346 The inhabitants turn what seems a plague to their own advantage. Locusts are eaten. 1806 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VI. 129 Among the most noxious species is the Gryllus migratorius of Linnaeus, or common migratory locust. 1869 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 5) xi. 439 Locusts are sometimes blown to great distances from the land. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xxxi. 288 The white ant can destroy fleets and cities, and the locusts erase a province. 1903 R. Kipling in Collier's Weekly 7 Mar. 8/1 The locusts' mile-deep swarm. 1932 Times 7 Apr. 13/4 The locust is no regarder of persons or frontiers. 1973 Nature 24 Aug. 484/1 Phase transformation in locusts refers to the changes induced when solitary hoppers (juvenile locusts) become gregarious. 2004 Independent 8 June 23/1 Desert locusts, or Shistocerca gregaria, travel in swarms millions strong and devour any vegetation in their path. < as lemmas |
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