cockroachnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɒk.rəʊtʃ/us/ˈkɑːk.roʊtʃ/a flat, brown or black insect sometimes found in the home
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Insect names
- anopheles
- ant
- aphid
- beastie
- bedbug
- daddy longlegs
- deathwatch beetle
- dragonfly
- earwig
- earworm
- insect
- ladybird
- lice
- lightning bug
- locust
- silverfish
- stick insect
- termite
- tortoiseshell butterfly
- tsetse fly
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Examples from literature
- From the collection, they identified 95 species, including a new kind of cockroach never identified before.
- The hill was covered in hundreds of thousands of busy, waste-eating cockroaches!
- Ants, cockroaches, mice, and other pests infest dirty places where food is kept, and render a house unfit for human habitation.
- Cockroaches, and all vermin, have an aversion to spirits of turpentine.
- I used to wonder at the ease with which a cockroach can climb a perfectly smooth wall and run across the ceiling.