ORIENTAL ROACH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution

Synonyms:

Asiatic cockroach; blackbeetle; Blatta orientalis; oriental cockroach; oriental roach

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("oriental roach" is a kind of...):

cockroach; roach (any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests)

Holonyms ("oriental roach" is a member of...):

Blatta; genus Blatta (type genus of the Blattidae: cockroaches infesting buildings worldwide)

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