a large insect that lives in hot countries and sometimes flies in large groups, destroying all the plants and crops of an area 蝗虫 a swarm of locusts 一大群蝗虫 The locusts have destroyed a lot of the crops. 蝗虫毁坏了大批庄稼。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of locusts- plague
- swarm
- descend on
- destroy
- swarm
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French locuste from Latin locusta ‘locust, crustacean’.