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A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.
A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which grows in the swamps of the Mississippi valley.
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A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.
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Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
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The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.
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Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.
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The European cricket warbler.
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A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
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The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.
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A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.
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A tree (Sophora Japonica) of Eastern Asia, resembling the common locust; occasionally planted in the United States.
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Swarming and devastating like locusts.
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A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia).
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A place; a locality.
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The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.
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Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants (Leguminosae), which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas.
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The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).
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