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crotonbug

noun

small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest

• Syn: ↑German cockroach, ↑Croton bug, ↑water bug, ↑Blattella germanica

• Hypernyms: ↑cockroach, ↑roach

• Member Holonyms: ↑Blattella, ↑genus Blattella

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/kroht"n bug'/, n.

See German cockroach.

Also, Croton bug.

[1855-60, Amer.; allegedly after the Croton Reservoir in Westchester Co., N.Y.; its opening in 1842 was supposedly coincident with a rise in New York City's cockroach population; see BUG¹]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.