locust

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈləʊ.kəst/    美 /ˈloʊ.kəst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, especially migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria).
  2. A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua). historical
    — Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.
  3. Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
  4. A cicada.
  5. A mainlander. Hong-Kong,derogatory,ethnic,offensive,slur
  6. A dose of laudanum. UK,obsolete,slang
    — I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight.
动词 v.
  1. To come in a swarm. intransitive
    — This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain, The hardest, cruellest people in the world, Come locusting upon us, eat us up, Confiscate lands, goods, money […]

词形变化

locusts plural locusts present,singular,third-person locusting participle,present locusted participle,past locusted past

词汇关系

衍生词
African locust American locust antilocust Australian plague locust bald locust black locust Bombay locust bristly locust brown locust camel locust Carolina locust cave locust clammy locust desert locust differential locust Egyptian locust grouse locust honey locust hoofed locust Italian locust Kelsey locust kosher locust locustal locust bean locust borer locustlike locust stick migratory locust mock locust Moroccan locust moss locust mossy locust New Mexican locust New Mexico locust plague locust post locust praying locust pygmy locust red-legged locust red locust river locust Rocky Mountain locust rose-flowering locust seventeen-year locust shipmast locust spotted locust spur-throated locust of Australia swamp locust sweet locust thirteen-year locust thorn locust thorny locust tree locust water locust West Indian locust white locust yellow locust

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lek-der.?
Latin locusta
Anglo-Norman locustebor.
Middle English locuste
English locust
Inherited from Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locustam (“locust, crustacean, lobster”, accusative of locusta). Doublet of langouste.
Noun sense 3 (“kind of tree”), originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís).
Noun sense 5 (“mainlander”) is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lek-der.?
Latin locusta
Anglo-Norman locustebor.
Middle English locuste
English locust
Inherited from Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locustam (“locust, crustacean, lobster”, accusative of locusta). Doublet of langouste.
Noun sense 3 (“kind of tree”), originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís).
Noun sense 5 (“mainlander”) is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".
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