katydid vs locust

katydid

noun
  • A relative of grasshoppers and crickets, in the family Tettigoniidae. 

locust

noun
  • Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria). 

  • A cicada. 

  • A Mainlander. 

  • Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree. 

  • A fruit or pod of the carob tree. 

verb
  • To come in a swarm. 

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