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Definition of locust
1 : short-horned grasshopper; especially : a migratory grasshopper often traveling in vast swarms and stripping the areas passed of all vegetation
2 : cicada
3a : any of various leguminous trees: such as (1) : carob 1 (2) : black locust (3) : honey locustb : the wood of a locust tree
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TruBee features honey (6 oz.) produced by free-range bees who forage for tulip poplar, fruit blossoms, and black locust in the spring.
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But, as always, Mother Nature has called attention to herself in other ways, especially an attack of locusts.
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At 15 percent, oaks will take up the largest segment of new trees, and honey locust, Japanese tree lilac, apple, linden, Dutch Elm Disease-resistant elms and some other varieties will be lining St. Paul streets, too.
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Locusts! Instead of building a church, Answers in Genesis is sharing its teachings through a controversial biblical theme park designed to attract believers and nonbelievers alike.
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A city plan to rezone the heart of Manhattan has touched off a new campaign to protect the afternoon light falling on a beloved park that offers honey locust trees, azaleas, pansies and a 25-foot-high waterfall.
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Looking back up toward the meadow, through the burgundy foliage of Japanese maples, the laciness of golden locust and past the snowy bracts of dogwood (Cornus kousa x C. nuttallii ‘Venus’ and Cornus ‘
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A storm blows apart the family’s home, a plague of locusts devours the crops, and people nearly starve to death.
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But there was no sky, just a seething mass of screeching locusts blocking out the early-morning light.
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Origin and Etymology of locust
Middle English, from Anglo-French locuste, from Latin locusta
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: a type of grasshopper that travels in very large groups and that can cause great destruction by eating crops
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