Locust vs Locus - What's the difference?
locust | locus |
A type of grasshopper in the family Acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation.
A locust tree.
A place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.
(mathematics) The set of all points whose coordinates satisfy a given equation or condition.
(genetics) A fixed position on a chromosome that may be occupied by one or more genes.
As nouns the difference between locust and locus
is that locust is a type of grasshopper in the family Acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation while locus is a place or locality, especially a centre of activity or the scene of a crime.locust
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(wikipedia locust)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* sometimes confused with locusAnagrams
*locus
English
Noun
(loci)- The cafeteria was the locus of activity.
- A circle is the locus of points from which the distance to the center is a given value, the radius.