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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.

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• ORIENTAL COCKROACH (noun)

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Meaning:

Dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution

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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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