The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word LOCUSTS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result LOCUSTS
- Insects place wings in this
- Cut loss – destroyed plague insects
- Ravenous pests, many seen outside clubs regularly
- They swarm surface, maybe covering stone
- Destroyers take position across the street
- Cold American surrounded by many insects
- Creatures likely to destroy position taken across street
- Insects found in place across street
- Cut loss from one of the Plagues of Egypt
- Student somehow scouts grasshoppers
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What does LOCUSTS mean?
LOCUSTS noun- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria).
- A fruit or pod of the carob tree.
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.
- A cicada.
- A Mainlander.
- To come in a swarm.