| 单词 | locust |
| 释义 | locust (once / 1635 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY locust: locusts USAGE EXAMPLESIn the 1970s, U.K. entomologists began to use mobile radars to assess movements of locusts and other pests in developing countries. Science Magazine(Dec 22, 2016) One chronicler described the brutality of the raid “like a razor over hair” and “locusts over a green crop.” Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) In an experience worthy of Alfred Hitchcock, a swarm of locusts descended, picking nearby bird carcasses clean, cannibalizing each other, and biting the researchers. Science Magazine(Dec 15, 2016) 1 n migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae 2Hypo|Hyper Locusta migratoria, migratory locust Old World locust that travels in vast swarms stripping large areas of vegetation migratory grasshopperserious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States acridid, short-horned grasshopper grasshopper with short antennae 1n any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae Syn|Hypo|Hyper locust tree Hymenaea courbaril, courbaril West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood Gleditsia aquatica, swamp locust, water locusthoney locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood Gleditsia triacanthos, honey locusttall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World Robinia pseudoacacia, black locust, yellow locustlarge thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions Robinia viscosa, clammy locustsmall rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms 2n hardwood from any of various locust trees Hyper wood the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees |
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