HBIan insect that lives mainly in Asia and Africa and flies in a very large group, eating and destroyingcrops 蝗虫
a swarm of locusts
一大群蝗虫
Examples from the Corpus
locust• Perhaps nets were hung over windows and doorways in the temples to keep out birds, and possibly dragon-flies and locusts.• Growing close to the house was a gnarled locusttree.• They resembled a horde of human locusts.• Swarms of locusts have been reported in 15 provinces.• Churchill's biographerrefers to the years before the Second World War as the locust years.• I first saw it in the locust on the dryridges, about twenty years ago.• Control has often centred on powerful organochlorine pesticides, which kill the locusts but can then damage the environment.• The yellowlocust is another matter entirely.
Originlocust
(1300-1400)Latinlocusta“lobster or similar animal”