blackbeetle

[ blak-beet-l ]

noun

oriental cockroach.

Origin of blackbeetle

black + beetle¹

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How to use blackbeetle in a sentence

Enter the baddest bug in the forest—a little black beetle with a whole lot of speed.
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Be on the lookout for black beetle on Aster and Chrysanthemum.
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Seems to me a perishin black-beetle in a ole could not ave come through that shell fire if e ad as many lives as a cat.
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She will be turned out to perish with no more compunction than if she were a black-beetle to be swept out of the way.
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The familiar cockroach, or 'black beetle,' of our lower regions, is an Oriental importation of the last century.
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Go, find that black beetle, and having found it, introduce it circumspectly by the back door.
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British Dictionary definitions for black beetle

black beetle

noun

another name for the oriental cockroach: See cockroach
NZ another name for Māori bug

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