Locust



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 蝗虫; 贪吃的人
• ［记］ loc ( 地方) +ust -> 从一个地方吃到另一个地方 -> 蝗虫

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French locuste, from Latin locusta
• Date: 14th century
• 1. short-horned grasshopper; especially a migratory grasshopper often traveling in vast swarms and stripping the areas passed of all vegetation
• 2. cicada
• 3.
  • a. any of various leguminous trees: as
    • (1) carob 1
    • (2) black locust
    • (3) honey locust
  • b. the wood of a locust tree

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