yellow locust

American  

noun

1. black locust.

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Etymology

Origin of yellow locust

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

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

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

From Project Gutenberg