Another word for locust

locust Synonyms

locust

dog-day cicada, short-horned grasshopper, migratory grasshopper, beetle; see grasshopper, insect.

Locusts include: Rocky Mountain, western cricket, stone-cricket, Mormon cricket, seventeen-year, migratory, clumsy, bald, green-striped.

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There were locust plagues in 1874, 1876 and 1877.
Be at the corner of Locust and Ninth in 20 minutes or I'm a dead man!
" Locust," which carried him into exile.
Extremity of Locust Point, an irregular peninsula extending S.E., on which are grain-elevators and a number of wharves, including those of the Baltimore & Ohio railway.
Other varieties, most of which are widely distributed, are the ash, pecan, cottonwood, sycamore, elm, maple, hickory, elder, gum, locust and river birch.

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