locust
意味
- イナゴ,バッタ;《米》セミ
- ハリエンジュ,ニセアカシア(堅い木材)
例文
My family eat like locusts and can clear a fridge in half an hour.
私の家族は大食いなので、30分もあれば冷蔵庫が空になってしまう。
The locust made a big jump.
そのイナゴは大きく跳ねた。
Locusts came in big swarms.
イナゴが大群をなしてやってきた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locustam (“locust, crustacean, lobster”, accusative of locusta). Doublet of langouste. Noun sense 3 (“kind of tree”), originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís). Noun sense 5 (“mainlander”) is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲 /蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".