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

noun. A cicada, especially a periodical cicada.

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

noun. The wood of any of these trees.

noun. A well-known tree of the United States, Robinia Pseudacacia, with thorny branches, delicate pinnate leaves, and dense clusters of white heavily scented flowers.

noun. The carob-tree, Ceratonia Siligua. See Ceratonia and carob.

noun. The wood of the locust-tree.

noun. A club or billy used by policemen: so called because commonly made of locust-wood.

To devour and lay waste like locusts; ravage.

noun. One of the orthopterous saltatorial insects of the family Acridiiæ, popularly known as grasshoppers, and more correctly called short-horned grasshoppers.

noun. An orthopterous saltatorial insect of the genus Locusta, family Locustidæ.

noun. A homopterous insect of the genus Cicada, family Cicadidæ, such as the harvest-fly, Cicada tibicon, and the seventeen-year locust, or periodical cicada, Cicada septendecim. See cut under Cicadidæ.

noun. A cockchafer; a beetle.

noun. Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididæ, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda migratoria, syn. Pachytylus migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See grasshopper.

noun. a longicorn beetle (Cyllene robiniæ), which, in the larval state, bores holes in the wood of the locust tree. Its color is brownish black, barred with yellow. Called also locust borer.

noun. the rose-colored starling or pastor of India. See Pastor.

noun. an African bird; the beefeater.

noun. The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).

noun. a commercial name for the sweet pod of the carob tree.

noun. A type of grasshopper in the family Acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation.

noun. A locust tree.

noun. migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae

noun. hardwood from any of various locust trees

noun. any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae

"The locust is white with warm heart wood, shots of brown and yellow."