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Locust tree can mean:
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"Locust" comes from the Latin locusta, meaning both "locust" (the insect) and "lobster". By analogy with a Levantine use of the Greek word for the insect, akris, for the pods of the carob tree, which supposedly resembled it, the pod-bearing North American tree started to be called "locust" in the 1630s.[1]
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