Crossword-Solution: LOCUSTA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Locusta | n. | The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LOCUSTA | anagram | CASTULO |
We have 3 clues for the answer “LOCUSTA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Swarming insect genus | 1 answer |
| flower cluster unit in grasses | 1 answer |
| BE SWARMING (WITH) | 11 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEZEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LOCUSTA (5)
Locusta, the poisoner whom Agrippina, wanting to kill the Emperor Claudius by slow degrees, called into service, and whose technique Nero admired so much that he was fain to put her on his pension list, barely escapes the deodorant.
Asie was terrifying, but you knew her thoroughly from the first; she descended in a straight line from Locusta; while Europe filled you with uneasiness, which could not fail to increase the more you had to do with her; her corruption seemed boundless.
Whenever he comes to a monastery, the local “god” ceases to eat and drink in fear of the activities of this Mongolian Locusta.
Lucky man!” “Is this true? Does nothing threaten her there in Cæsar’s house?” “If she had to live there permanently, Poppæa would talk about her to Locusta, but for a few days there is no danger.
The insect which I now offer to the Bee's lancet is the Great Green Grasshopper (Locusta viridissima), the adult female.
Quotes with LOCUSTA (1)
They say the eyes are the apertures to the soul. If that is so, I feared Locusta's soul was far darker than even Nero's.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2007).