locust

/ˈloʊ.kəst/ 名词 C1

中文：蝗虫

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).
A fruit or pod of a carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua).
Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree.
A cicada.
A mainlander.

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## The Boy Hunting Locusts

A BOY was hunting for locusts.

He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him.

The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: “If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!”

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