locust

• Noun

  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).
  3. Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
  4. A cicada.
  5. A Mainlander.

• Verb