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<h1>Locular</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Loc"u*lar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>locularis</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as tri<i>locular</i>.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<h1>Loculate</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Loc"u*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>loculatus</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Divided into compartments.</def>

<h1>Locule</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Loc"ule</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>locule</ets>. See <er>Loculus</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A little hollow; a loculus.</def>

<h1>Loculicidal</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Loc"u*li*ci`dal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>loculus</ets> cell + <ets>caedere</ets> to cut: cf. F. <ets>loculicide</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.</def>

<h1>Loculose, Loculous</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw><hw>Loc"u*lose`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Loc"u*lous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>loculosus</ets>. See <er>Loculament</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.</def>

<h1>Loculus</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Loc"u*lus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Loculi</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., little place, a compartment.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.</def>

<h1>Locum tenens</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lo"cum te"nens</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[L., holding the place; <ets>locus</ets> place + <ets>tenens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>tenere</ets> to hold. Cf. <er>Lieutenant</er>.]</ety> <def>A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.</def>

<h1>Locus</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lo"cus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Loci</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>, & <plw>Loca</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., place. Cf. <er>Allow</er>, <er>Couch</er>, <er>Lieu</er>, <er>Local</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A place; a locality.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The line traced by a point which varies its position according to some determinate law; the surface described by a point or line that moves according to a given law.</def>

<cs><col>Plane locus</col>, <cd>a locus that is a straight line, or a circle.</cd> -- <col>Solid locus</col>, <cd>a locus that is one of the conic sections.</cd></cs>

<h1>Locust</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lo"cust</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>locusta</ets> locust, grasshopper. Cf. <er>Lobster</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family <spn>Acridid\'91</spn>, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (<spn>Edipoda, &or; Pachytylus, migratoria</spn>, and <spn>Acridium perigrinum</spn>, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called <altname>grasshoppers</altname>. See <er>Grasshopper</er>.</def>

<note>&hand; These insects are at times so numerous in Africa and the south of Asia as to devour every green thing; and when they migrate, they fly in an immense cloud. In the United States the harvest flies are improperly called <i>locusts</i>. See <er>Cicada</er>.</note>

<cs><col>Locust beetle</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a longicorn beetle (<spn>Cyllene robini\'91</spn>), which, in the larval state, bores holes in the wood of the locust tree. Its color is brownish black, barred with yellow. Called also <altname>locust borer</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Locust bird</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>the rose-colored starling or pastor of India. See <er>Pastor</er>.</cd> -- <col>Locust hunter</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>an African bird; the beefeater.</cd></cs>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[Etymol. uncertain.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The locust tree. See <er>Locust Tree</er> (definition, note, and phrases).</def>

<cs><col>Locust bean</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a commercial name for the sweet pod of the carob tree.</cd></cs>

<h1>Locusta</h1> <Xpage=864>

<hw>Lo*cus"ta</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL.: cf. <ets>locuste</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses.</def>