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Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.

The power of changing place.

Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion. Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy (Med.), a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coördinating voluntary movements.

The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

elating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular. Gray.

Divided into compartments.

A little hollow; a loculus.

Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.

Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.

One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.

A substitute or deputy; one filling an office for a time.

A place; a locality.

Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididæ, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, or Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grass…

nia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.

The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. Gray.

The European cricket warbler.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the locust; -- formerly used to designate a supposed acid.

Swarming and devastating like locusts. [R.] Tennyson.

Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression. " Stumbling locutions." G. Eliot. I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases forced by ceremony. Marston.

A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.