locust
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The European Food Safety Authority said adults of insect species locusta migratoria were high in protein with no safety concerns, though they might trigger reactions in people allergic to crustaceans, mites and molluscs.
From Reuters • Nov. 12, 2021
Had I not been a little acquainted with insects, and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched, I should have hardly believed but that it had been a locusta whispering in the bushes.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
The grasshopper, says he, shall be a burthen, Oneri erit locusta.
From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Mead, Richard
Had I not been a little acquainted with insects, and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched, I should have hardly believed but that it had been a locusta whispering in the bushes.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Morley, Henry
Indeed the Vulgate version has impinguabitur locusta, the grasshopper shall be fatted.
From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Mead, Richard
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