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Definition of Locusts
1. locust [n] - See also: locust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Locusts
Literary usage of Locusts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 by Henry Youle Hind (1860)
"Distinctions between Crickets, Grasshoppers and locusts. ... Accounts of the
Appearance of locusts in the United States and Rupert's Land. ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Of the infinite number of locusts, and of the harme which they do, and how we
made a Procession, and the locusts dyed. The incredible hurts done by them. ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1876)
"It is my desire, rather, to demonstrate the availability of locusts as food for
... With the exception of locusts, most other insects that have been used as ..."
4. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"The plagues of (inter alia) flies and locusts. AD 158 Scotland. ... At Carinthia
locusts eat up all; famine and plague. '86 Prussia. ..."
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