locust
part of speech
noun (a locust, locusts)
meaning for a pupil
1) A large kind of grasshopper that sometimes gathers in huge swarms that fly far and eat all the crops. tree →
2) (Bible) Locusts are one of the plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus; John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey. tree →
3) (US, informal) Sometimes used for a cicada, a loud buzzing insect. tree →
4) A kind of tree (the locust tree or carob). tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and geography it shows how insects can damage farms and cause hunger in parts of Africa and Asia. In Bible lessons it is part of the story of Moses and the plagues. Phrases: a plague of locusts, a swarm of locusts.
examples
- A swarm of locusts can eat a whole field in one day. tree →
- Locusts are a kind of grasshopper. tree →
- In the Bible, God sent locusts to cover the land of Egypt. tree →
- John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey. tree →
- Farmers in East Africa feared the locust swarms. tree →
- Some people around the world eat roasted locusts. tree →
- A BOY was hunting for locusts. tree →
note
Countable. A swarm can hold millions or even billions of locusts, which is why the numbers in problems about them get huge. In the USA people sometimes wrongly call cicadas locusts.
In the corpora
- Desert locusts are grasshoppers that, when crowded, change colour and behaviour and form swarms of billions that eat crops.
- A big locust swarm can eat as much food in a day as millions of people.
- Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border;
- Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
- All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess.
Trees and pragmatics
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