LOCUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locust mean? 

• LOCUST (noun)
  The noun LOCUST has 3 senses:

1. migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae

2. hardwood from any of various locust trees

3. any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae

  Familiarity information: LOCUST used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("locust" is a kind of...):

acridid; short-horned grasshopper (grasshopper with short antennae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "locust"):

Locusta migratoria; migratory locust (Old World locust that travels in vast swarms stripping large areas of vegetation)

migratory grasshopper (serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hardwood from any of various locust trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("locust" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("locust" is a substance of...):

locust; locust tree (any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

locust; locust tree

Hypernyms ("locust" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "locust"):

locust (hardwood from any of various locust trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "locust"):

courbaril; Hymenaea courbaril (West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood)

Gleditsia aquatica; swamp locust; water locust (honey locust of swamps and bottomlands of southern United States having short oval pods; yields dark heavy wood)

Gleditsia triacanthos; honey locust (tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old World)

black locust; Robinia pseudoacacia; yellow locust (large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions)

clammy locust; Robinia viscosa (small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds)

Holonyms ("locust" is a member of...):

Fabaceae; family Fabaceae; family Leguminosae; legume family; Leguminosae; pea family (a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae)

 Context examples 

Never have I seen such locusts as this vanguard of ours.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)