noun
dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution
• Syn: ↑oriental cockroach, ↑oriental roach, ↑Asiatic cockroach, ↑Blatta orientalis
• Member Holonyms: ↑Blatta, ↑genus Blatta
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷\ noun chiefly Britain : oriental cockroach
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/blak"beet'l/, n.
See oriental cockroach.
[BLACK + BEETLE1]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.