locust

英 [ˈləʊkəst]

美 [ˈloʊkəst]

n.  蝗虫

复数：locusts　第三人称单数：locusts　

高考CET6GRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.21741 / COCA.15256

牛津词典

noun

• 蝗虫
  a large insect that lives in hot countries and flies in large groups, destroying all the plants and crops of an area
  1. a swarm of locusts
     一大群蝗虫

柯林斯词典

• 蝗虫
  Locustsare large insects that live mainly in hot countries. They fly in large groups and eat crops.

英英释义

noun

• migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae
• any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
  Synonym:locust tree
• hardwood from any of various locust trees

双语例句

• Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.
  其中有蝗虫，蚂蚱，蟋蟀与其类，蚱蜢与其类，这些你们都可以吃。
• The food of cattle egret was mostly spider, locust, cricket and frog.
  牛背鹭主要取食蜘蛛、蝗虫、蟋蟀和蛙类。
• The fungus then destroys the locust's tissues from the inside.
  然后，真菌从内部破坏蝗虫的组织。
• Small rough-barked locust of southeastern United States having racemes of pink flowers and glutinous branches and seeds.
  美国东南部的一种小而树皮粗糙洋槐，有开粉红色花朵的总状花序和粘的树枝和种子。
• A micro-propagation system for tetraploid black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia) was established by using its shoots.
  通过茎段离体培养建立了四倍体刺槐无性系的微体繁殖体系。
• But analysing annual and decadal effects of temperature on locust populations could yield totally different results, explains Zhibin.
  但是，张知彬解释素，分析年度和十年期的温度对蝗虫数量的影响可能产生完全不同的结果。
• Two areas have been struck by the locust plague at once.
  同时有两个地区遭到蝗灾。
• International Conference on Locust and Grasshopper Infestation
  防治蝗虫和蚱蜢灾害国际会议
• Under the withering assault of the locust swarms, a quarter of west Africa's crops could vanish.
  在蝗虫群的毁灭性袭击下，西非农作物的4分之一可能完全消失。
• The locust swarm has destroyed all the crops and vegetables.
  蝗虫群毁坏了所有的庄稼和蔬菜。