Cockroach
['kɒkrəʊtʃ] or ['kɑk'rotʃ]
Definition
(noun.) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests.
Typed by Ann--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.
Checker: Salvatore
Examples
- The leaders of the cockroach army arrived. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before it its great congener. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Oh, if you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There were also a great variety of flying cockroaches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The operators there had been much annoyed by an army of cockroaches that used to march across the table where they put their lunches and make a raid on the sandwiches and pies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The moment they got their legs across both strips there was a flash of light and the cockroaches went into gas. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was literally loaded with cockroaches, which lived between the wall and the board running around the room at the floor, and which came after the lunch. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The cockroaches moving up on the wall would pass over the strips. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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