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Main Entry: lo·cust
Pronunciation: 'lO-k&st
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin locusta
1 : SHORT-HORNED GRASSHOPPER; especially : a migratory grasshopper often traveling in vast swarms and stripping the areas passed of all vegetation