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Definitions of locusts in various dictionaries:
noun - migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae
noun - hardwood from any of various locust trees
noun - any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
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| The eighth plague on Egypt not only came down like a plague of these, it was a plague of these |
| Leviticus 11 says most insects that creep or fly are an abomination, but this 8th plague is kosher |
| The eighth plague of Egypt in Exodus, they plague some areas of the Earth every 17 years |
| Holy Moses! a plague of these struck Egypt in 2013--that's A.D., by the way |
| In 1889 a Red Sea swarm of these covered an estimated 2,000-square-mile area |
| This plague, No. 8, occurs every 17 years in some places |
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| Plural form of locust. |
| a large, mainly tropical grasshopper with strong powers of flight. It is usually solitary, but from time to time there is a population explosion and it migrates in vast swarms which cause extensive damage to vegetation. |
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Locusts are certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstances they become more abundant and change their behaviour and habits, becoming gregarious. No taxonomic distinction is made between locust and grasshopper species; the basis for the definition is whether a species forms swarms under intermittently suitable conditions. * In the solitary phase, these grasshoppers are innocuous, their numbers are low, and they do not pose a major economic threat to agriculture. However, under suitable conditions of drought followed by rapid vegetation growth, serotonin in their brains triggers a dramatic set of changes: they start to breed abundantly, becoming gregarious and nomadic (loosely described as migratory) when their populations become dense enough. They form bands of wingless nymphs which later become swarms of winged adults. Both the bands and the swarms move around and rapidl |