| locust | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. locust | migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae. |
| ~ acridid, short-horned grasshopper | grasshopper with short antennae. |
| ~ locusta migratoria, migratory locust | Old World locust that travels in vast swarms stripping large areas of vegetation. |
| ~ migratory grasshopper | serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States. |
| n. (plant) | 2. locust | hardwood from any of various locust trees. |
| ~ locust tree, locust | any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae. |
| ~ wood | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. |
| n. (plant) | 3. locust, locust tree | any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae. |
| ~ fabaceae, family fabaceae, family leguminosae, legume family, leguminosae, pea family | a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae. |
| ~ courbaril, hymenaea courbaril | West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood. |
| ~ locust | hardwood from any of various locust trees. |
| ~ gleditsia aquatica, swamp locust, water locust | honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood. |
| ~ gleditsia triacanthos, honey locust | tall 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, yellow locust, black locust | large 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. |
| ~ clammy locust, robinia viscosa | small 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. |
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