yellow locust

noun

1. black locust.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow locust¹

An Americanism dating back to 1800–10

Example Sentences

For now, the young yellow locusts cover the ground and tree trunks like a twitching carpet, sometimes drifting over the dust like giant grains of sand.

From Washington Times

The black or yellow locust is a beautiful tree in its youth, with smooth dark rind and slender trunk, holding up a loose roundish head of dark green foliage.

From Project Gutenberg

If black and yellow locusts appear in a man's house, the supports of that house will fall.

From Project Gutenberg

A swarm of yellow locusts passed overhead, and exploding shrapnel tore them into myriads of pieces, their wings and limbs falling near the burghers.

From Project Gutenberg

There was no want of animal life, and the yellow locusts were abroad; one had been seized by a little lizard which showed all the violent muscular action of the crocodile.

From Project Gutenberg