Hypertext Webster Gateway: "palmerworm"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Palmer-worm
(Heb. gazam). The English word may denote either a caterpillar
(as rendered by the LXX.), which wanders like a palmer or
pilgrim, or which travels like pilgrims in bands (Joel 1:4;
2:25), the wingless locusts, or the migratory locust in its
larva state.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Palmerworm \Palm"er*worm`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers,
devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer.
The name is applied also to other voracious insects.
--Joel. i. 4.
(b) In America, the larva of any one of several moths,
which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees,
esp. the larva of {Ypsolophus pometellus}, which
sometimes appears in vast numbers.
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