Locusta

Word LOCUSTA
Character 7
Hyphenation lo cus ta
Pronunciations N/A

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In most of our translations also of the Bible the word locusta is Englished a grasshopper, and thereunto (Leviticus xi.) it is reputed among the clean food, otherwise John the Baptist would never have lived with them in the wilderness. ❋ Unknown (1909)

According to botanists, this may be Valerianella locusta, called Feldsalat in Germany, and in English corn salad or lamb's lettuce. ❋ Lurie, Alison (2008)

Fr. guerir, healed. heled, v., concealed. honeysuckle, n., a rendering of locusta as the name of ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)

IN the spring about the middle of May, the black pied rice bird (which is called the male) appear in Pennsylvania; at that time the great yellow ephemera, called May fly, and a species of locusta appear in incredible multitudes, the favourite delicious food of these birds, when they are sprightly, vociferous, and pleasingly tuneful. ❋ Unknown (1823)

Had I not been a little acquainted with insects, and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched, I should have hardly believed but that it had been a _locusta_ whispering in the bushes. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

Like locusta, the unions gobbled up all of the seeds instead of being satisfied with the harvest.

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