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Cockroach   /kˈɑkrˌoʊtʃ/   Listen
Cockroach

noun
1.
Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests.  Synonym: roach.



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"Cockroach" Quotes from Famous Books



... and sluggish looking sister is this sprightly, slender, fragile-flowered mullein. "Said to repel the cockroach (Blatta). hence the name Blattaria; frequented by moths, hence moth mullein." (Britton and Brown's "Flora.") Are the latter frequent visitors? Surely there is nothing here to a moth's liking. New England women used to pack this plant among woolen garments in summer to keep out ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

... completely extirpated a native rat, which the Maoris allege they brought with them from their home in the Pacific; and in the same country a native fly is being supplanted by the European house-fly. In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has driven away a larger native species; and in Australia the imported hive-bee is exterminating ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... I'll send a can of Killbug out with the wire. I noticed a cockroach run over the ice box last night. You must watch that a little, even ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst



Words linked to "Cockroach" :   suborder Blattodea, Periplaneta australasiae, Blattella germanica, Blattaria, crotonbug, Blattodea, Croton bug, Periplaneta americana, dictyopterous insect, roach, blackbeetle, Blatta orientalis, suborder Blattaria, oriental roach, water bug



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