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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Latin
Origin: locusta 'lobster or similar animal'

locust

 noun
     
Related topics: Insects
lo‧cust [countable]
HBI an insect that lives mainly in Asia and Africa and flies in a very large group, eating and destroying crops:
a swarm of locusts
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