locust 音标拼音: [l'okəst]
n . 蝗虫,蚱蜢,蝉
蝗虫,蚱蜢,蝉
locust n 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 [
synonym :
{
locust tree }, {
locust }]
Harvest \
Har "
vest \ (
h [
aum ]
r "
v [
e ^]
st ),
n . [
OE .
harvest ,
hervest ,
AS .
h [
ae ]
rfest autumn ;
akin to LG .
harfst ,
D .
herfst ,
OHG .
herbist ,
G .
herbst ,
and prob .
to L .
carpere to pluck ,
Gr .
karpo `
s fruit .
Cf . {
Carpet }.]
1 .
The gathering of a crop of any kind ;
the ingathering of the crops ;
also ,
the season of gathering grain and fruits ,
late summer or early autumn .
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Seedtime and harvest . . .
shall not cease . --
Gen .
viii .
22 .
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At harvest ,
when corn is ripe . --
Tyndale .
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2 .
That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gathered ;
a crop ,
as of grain (
wheat ,
maize ,
etc .),
or fruit .
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Put ye in the sickle ,
for the harvest is ripe .
--
Joel iii .
13 .
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To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps . --
Shak .
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3 .
The product or result of any exertion or labor ;
gain ;
reward .
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The pope '
s principal harvest was in the jubilee .
--
Fuller .
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The harvest of a quiet eye . --
Wordsworth .
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{
Harvest fish } (
Zool .),
a marine fish of the Southern United States ({
Stromateus alepidotus }); --
called {
whiting }
in Virginia .
Also applied to the dollar fish .
{
Harvest fly } (
Zool .),
an hemipterous insect of the genus {
Cicada },
often called {
locust }.
See {
Cicada }.
{
Harvest lord },
the head reaper at a harvest . [
Obs .]
--
Tusser .
{
Harvest mite } (
Zool .),
a minute European mite ({
Leptus autumnalis }),
of a bright crimson color ,
which is troublesome by penetrating the skin of man and domestic animals ; --
called also {
harvest louse },
and {
harvest bug }.
{
Harvest moon },
the moon near the full at the time of harvest in England ,
or about the autumnal equinox ,
when ,
by reason of the small angle that is made by the moon '
s orbit with the horizon ,
it rises nearly at the same hour for several days .
{
Harvest mouse } (
Zool .),
a very small European field mouse ({
Mus minutus }).
It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants .
{
Harvest queen },
an image representing Ceres ,
formerly carried about on the last day of harvest . --
Milton .
{
Harvest spider }. (
Zool .)
See {
Daddy longlegs }.
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Locust \
Lo "
cust \,
n . [
L .
locusta locust ,
grasshopper .
Cf .
{
Lobster }.]
1 . (
Zool .)
Any one of numerous species of long -
winged ,
migratory ,
orthopterous insects ,
of the family {
Acridid [
ae ]},
allied to the grasshoppers ;
esp ., ({
Edipoda migratoria },
syn . {
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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Note :
These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the south of Asia as to devour every green thing ;
and when they migrate ,
they fly in an immense cloud .
In the United States the harvest flies are improperly called locusts .
See {
Cicada }.
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{
Locust beetle } (
Zool .),
a longicorn beetle ({
Cyllene robini [
ae ]}),
which ,
in the larval state ,
bores holes in the wood of the locust tree .
Its color is brownish black ,
barred with yellow .
Called also {
locust borer }.
{
Locust bird } (
Zool .)
the rose -
colored starling or pastor of India .
See {
Pastor }.
{
Locust hunter } (
Zool .),
an African bird ;
the beefeater .
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2 . [
Etymol .
uncertain .] (
Bot .)
The locust tree .
See {
Locust Tree } (
definition ,
note ,
and phrases ).
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{
Locust bean } (
Bot .),
a commercial name for the sweet pod of the carob tree .
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Locust There are ten Hebrew words used in Scripture to signify locust .
In the New Testament locusts are mentioned as forming part of the food of John the Baptist (
Matt .
3 :
4 ;
Mark 1 :
6 ).
By the Mosaic law they were reckoned "
clean ,"
so that he could lawfully eat them .
The name also occurs in Rev .
9 :
3 ,
7 ,
in allusion to this Oriental devastating insect .
Locusts belong to the class of Orthoptera ,
i .
e .,
straight -
winged .
They are of many species .
The ordinary Syrian locust resembles the grasshopper ,
but is larger and more destructive . "
The legs and thighs of these insects are so powerful that they can leap to a height of two hundred times the length of their bodies .
When so raised they spread their wings and fly so close together as to appear like one compact moving mass ."
Locusts are prepared as food in various ways .
Sometimes they are pounded ,
and then mixed with flour and water ,
and baked into cakes ; "
sometimes boiled ,
roasted ,
or stewed in butter ,
and then eaten ."
They were eaten in a preserved state by the ancient Assyrians .
The devastations they make in Eastern lands are often very appalling .
The invasions of locusts are the heaviest calamites that can befall a country . "
Their numbers exceed computation :
the hebrews called them '
the countless ,'
and the Arabs knew them as '
the darkeners of the sun .'
Unable to guide their own flight ,
though capable of crossing large spaces ,
they are at the mercy of the wind ,
which bears them as blind instruments of Providence to the doomed region given over to them for the time .
Innumerable as the drops of water or the sands of the seashore ,
their flight obscures the sun and casts a thick shadow on the earth (
Ex .
10 :
15 ;
Judg .
6 :
5 ;
7 :
12 ;
Jer .
46 :
23 ;
Joel 2 :
10 ).
It seems indeed as if a great aerial mountain ,
many miles in breadth ,
were advancing with a slow ,
unresting progress .
Woe to the countries beneath them if the wind fall and let them alight !
They descend unnumbered as flakes of snow and hide the ground .
It may be '
like the garden of Eden before them ,
but behind them is a desolate wilderness .
At their approach the people are in anguish ;
all faces lose their colour ' (
Joel 2 :
6 ).
No walls can stop them ;
no ditches arrest them ;
fires kindled in their path are forthwith extinguished by the myriads of their dead ,
and the countless armies march on (
Joel 2 :
8 ,
9 ).
If a door or a window be open ,
they enter and destroy everything of wood in the house .
Every terrace ,
court ,
and inner chamber is filled with them in a moment .
Such an awful visitation swept over Egypt (
Ex .
10 :
1 -
19 ),
consuming before it every green thing ,
and stripping the trees ,
till the land was bared of all signs of vegetation .
A strong north -
west wind from the Mediterranean swept the locusts into the Red Sea .",
Geikie '
s Hours ,
etc .,
ii .,
149 .
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