| 词汇 | locust |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： 1. locust (1) "grasshopper," c.1300, borrowed earlier in O.Fr. form languste (c.1200), from L. locusta "locust, lobster" (see lobster)."In the Hebrew Bible there are nine different names for the insect or for particular species or varieties; in the English Bible they are rendered sometimes 'locust,' sometimes 'beetle,' 'grasshopper,' 'caterpillar,' 'palmerworm,' etc. The precise application of several names is unknown." [OED] 2. locust (2) "N.Amer. tree," 1640, originally "carob tree" (1615), whose fruit supposedly resembled the insect. Gk. akris "locust" was often applied in the Levant to carob pods. Soon applied in Eng. to other trees as well. |
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