locust destroyer, noun phrase

Obsolete. locust-bird (probably sense 2).
1801 G. Yonge in G.M. Theal Rec. of Cape Col. (1898) III. 428An Immense Flight of Birds..fell upon them and in a short time, there was not a Locust left alive...The Boors call them emphatically, the Locust Destroyers, and have no other name for them.
locust-bird (probably sense 2).
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