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ORIENTAL COCKROACH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does oriental cockroach mean?
• ORIENTAL COCKROACH (noun)
The noun ORIENTAL COCKROACH has 1 sense:
1. dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution
Familiarity information: ORIENTAL COCKROACH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Asiatic cockroach; blackbeetle; Blatta orientalis; oriental cockroach; oriental roach
Hypernyms ("oriental cockroach" is a kind of...):
cockroach; roach (any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests)
Holonyms ("oriental cockroach" is a member of...):
Blatta; genus Blatta (type genus of the Blattidae: cockroaches infesting buildings worldwide)
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