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Rarelocusts
The correct spelling is locusts.
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noun
Say it like: Loc-ust-s
The correct spelling is locusts. Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locus…
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Meanings
noun
- 1.Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria).
- 2.A fruit or pod of the carob tree.
- 3.Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.
- 4.A cicada.
- 5.A Mainlander.
verb
- 1.To come in a swarm.
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