| 单词 | palmetto bug |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspalmetto bug palmetto bug n. U.S. regional (chiefly south-eastern) (freq. euphemistic) any of several large, flying cockroaches chiefly of the genus Periplaneta, including the American cockroach, P. americana. ΚΠ 1947 M. S. Douglas Everglades ii. 44 Shining brown leaf-shaped palmetto bugs scurry like cockroaches. 1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 139 It's because of the river and the palm and pecan trees and the humidity that we have so many palmetto bugs, roaches so big they look like Pleistocene. 2001 Houston Chron. (Electronic ed.) 19 Aug. 6 These cockroaches could harm Florida's image. But we Floridians solved that problem by giving them a new name, ‘palmetto bugs’, which makes them sound cute and harmless. < as lemmas |
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