A supposed locust-eating people in ancient ethnography, located by Diodorus Siculus, Jerome, Pliny the Elder, and Strabo, variously in Ethiopia, Libya, or Parthia.
Origin
The plural of Latin acridophagus, from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς + φάγος.
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