LOCO MEANING IN FRENCH

Definition & Synonyms

• Loco

1. (n.) A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.
2. (adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
3. (v. t.) To poison with loco; to affect with the loco disease; hence (Colloq.), to render insane or mad.
4. (n.) A locomotive.
5. (n.) Any one of various leguminous plants or weeds besides Astragalus, whose herbage is poisonous to cattle, as Spiesia Lambertii, syn. Oxytropis Lambertii.

• Loco disease

1. () A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.