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nounany of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
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nounhardwood from any of various locust treestype of:
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nounmigratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennaetype of:
Definition that contains locust
- locust hardwood from any of various locust trees
- acrididae short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
- water locust honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood
- magicicada seventeen-year locust
- hymenaea courbaril West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood
- family acrididae short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts
- orthoptera grasshoppers and locusts; crickets
- genus melanoplus New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers
- black locust strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay
- melanoplus New World migratory locusts and common American grasshoppers