英语词汇“locust bean”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

locust bean

释义

locust /lōˈkəst/

noun

A name for several kinds of migratory winged insects of the family Acrididiae, related to grasshoppers, highly destructive to vegetation
Extended to various similar insects
A devourer or devastator (figurative)
A locust bean
A locust tree

intransitive verb (rare)

To lay waste like locusts

ORIGIN: L locusta lobster, locust; cf lobster

locustˈa noun (pl locustˈae /-ē/)

A grass spikelet
(with cap) a genus of grasshoppers of the family Locustˈidae (not usu classed as locusts)

locust bean noun

The carob bean

locust bird noun

Any of several pratincoles that feed on locusts

locust tree noun

The carob
The false acacia (Robinia pseudo-acacia) or its wood
A large West Indian tree (Hymenaea courbaril) of the Caesalpinia family, with buttress roots, valuable wood, and bark exuding resin

loˈcust-years plural noun

Years of poverty and hardship (used by Winston Churchill, after an expression in the Old Testament, Joel 2.25)

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