locust

Significado (Inglés)

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. (historical) 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. (Hong-Kong, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) A Mainlander.
6. (UK, obsolete, slang) A dose of laudanum.

Verb

To come in a swarm.

Conceptos

langosta

🦞

saltamontes

falsa acacia

robinia

Robinia

acacia

acrídido

acacia blanca

chapulín

Sinónimos

grasshopper

cricket

🦗

cicada

locust tree

Robinia

black locust

patanga

short-horned grasshopper

false acacias

grass-hopper

bristly locust

moss locust

rose acacia

yellow locust

acacia

locustidae

ant

🐜

dragonfly

fly

✈️

grig

a species of grasshoppers

Traducciones

criquet

locuste

sauterelle

Heuschrecke

cavalletta

locusta

sprinkhaan

gafanhoto

llagosta

ακρίδα

treksprinkhaan

çekirge

جرادة

Wanderheuschrecke

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈləʊ.kəst/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: locuste

In summary

From Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”). Doublet of langouste.
The tree sense, 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).
The sense in "Mainlander" is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".