Dict: easton - Cankerworm

easton:

Cankerworm @ (Heb. yelek), "the licking locust," which licks up the grass of the field; probably the locust at a certain stage of its growth, just as it emerges from the caterpillar state kjv@Joel:1:4 kjv@Joel:2:25). The word is rendered "caterpillar" in kjv@Psalms:105:34; kjv@Jeremiah:51:14 kjv@Jeremiah:51:17 (but R.V. "canker-worm"). "It spoileth and fleeth away" kjv@Nahum:3:16), or as some read the passage, "The cankerworm putteth off [i.e., the envelope of its wings], and fleeth away."