oriental cockroach

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noun

a dark-brown cockroach, Blatta orientalis, thought to have originated in Asia but now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.

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Also called oriental roach, blackbeetle.

Words nearby oriental cockroach

Oriental alabaster, Oriental almandine, oriental beetle, Oriental carpet, Oriental cat's eye, oriental cockroach, Oriental emerald, Oriental fruit moth, Orientalia, Orientalism, Orientalize

How to use oriental cockroach in a sentence

She suffered no more beatings—just solitary confinement in an underground cell always dark and dank and cockroach-infested.
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A choice Johnson says he made channeling a Harpo Marx type character, and not a “mysterious Oriental.”
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The mattresses are taken off the beds, making four low oriental divans.
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They screamed oriental abuse at the Korean perpetrator of the crime, and the Korean perpetrator screamed back.
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Malcolm lives in New York, in an apartment of wood floors and oriental carpets, overlooking Gramercy Park.
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Monotheism is strictly inconsistent with the supremacy of “merits” which is the very soul of Oriental religion.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
He was professor of oriental languages; his dissertations on various subjects of criticism and antiquity were highly esteemed.
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He was distinguished as an oriental scholar, and died while delivering an oration at the academy of Caen.
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Whether this aptitude was combined with the sinuous cunning that is essentially Oriental Nigel did not know.
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Some who would face a mad bull coolly enough spring with disgust from a cockroach or a centipede.
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