locustとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊ.kəst/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊ.kəst/
• 韻: -əʊkəst, -oʊkəst

名詞

locust (複数形 locusts)

1. Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria). [from 14th c.]
2. (now historical) A fruit or pod of the carob tree. [from 16th c.]
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 9, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:

     Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.

3. Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree. [from 17th c.]
4. A cicada. [from 18th c.]
5. (Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive) A Mainlander.

使用する際の注意点

• Sometimes confused with locus.

下位語

1. American locust (Schistocerca americana)
2. Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera)
3. Bombay locust (Nomadacris succincta)
4. brown locust (Locustana pardalina)
5. desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria)
6. Italian locust (Calliptamus italicus)
7. migratory locust (Locusta migratoria)
8. Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus)
9. red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata)
10. Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) (extinct)
11. spur-throated locust (Austracris guttulosa), of Australia
12. Tree locusts (Anacridium spp.)
    1. Anacridium aegyptium (Egyptian locust).
    2. Anacridium melanorhodon, of Africa.
    3. Anacridium wernerellum, of Africa.

派生語

動詞

locust (三人称単数 現在形 locusts, 現在分詞 locusting, 過去形および過去分詞形 locusted)

1. (intransitive) To come in a swarm.
   • 1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
     The hardest, cruellest people in the world,
     Come locusting upon us, eat us up,
     Confiscate lands, goods, money […]

参照

アナグラム

• clouts