| NOUN | animal | oriental roach, oriental cockroach, Asiatic cockroach, blackbeetle, Blatta orientalis | dark brown cockroach originally / originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
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| Meaning | dark brown cockroach originally / originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution. | |
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| Synonyms | oriental cockroach, Asiatic cockroach, blackbeetle, Blatta orientalis | |
| Member of | Blatta, genus Blatta | type genus of the Blattidae |
| Broader | cockroach, roach | Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects |