1) a locust, particularly that species which especially infests
    oriental countries, stripping fields and trees. Numberless swarms
    of them almost every spring are carried by the wind from Arabia
    into Palestine, and having devastated that country, migrate to
    regions farther north, until they perish by falling into the sea.
    The Orientals accustomed to feed upon locusts, either raw or
    roasted and seasoned with salt (or prepared in other ways), and
    the Israelites also were permitted to eat them.