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Home Dictionary Name: locustingLocustic
Pertaining to or derived from the locust formerly used to designate a supposed acid...
Locusting
Swarming and devastating like locusts...
Grasshopper
Any jumping orthopterous insect of the families Acrididaelig and Locustidaelig having large hind legs adapted for leaping and chewing mouth parts The species and genera are very numerous and some are very destructive to crops The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust Caloptenus spretus noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi In the Eastern United States the red legged Caloptenus femurrubrum and C atlanis are closely related species but their ravages are less important They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World See Locust...
VerbarLongicornia
A division of beetles including a large number of species in which the antennaelig are very long Most of them while in the larval state bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees See Apple borer under Apple and Locust beetle under Locust...
Cicada
Any species of the genus Cicada or of the family Cicadidae They are large hemipterous insects with nearly transparent wings The male makes a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the under side of the abdomen consisting of a pair of stretched membranes acted upon by powerful muscles A noted American species Cicada septendecim is called the seventeen year locust Another common species is the dogday cicada...
fernlike
resembling ferns especially in leaf shape as the fernlike shadows of locust leaves...
Locust
Any one of numerous species of long winged migratory orthopterous insects of the family Acrididaelig 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...
Locust tree
A large North American tree of the genus Robinia Robinia Pseudacacia producing large slender racemes of white fragrant papilionaceous flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental tree In England it is called acacia...
VerbarOrthoptera
An order of mandibulate insects including grasshoppers locusts cockroaches mantids crickets katydids etc See Illust under Insect...
VerbarRobinia
A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America Robinia Pseudocacia...
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