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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cockroach \Cock"roach\, n. [Sp. cucaracha.] (Zo["o]l.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.
Note: The species are numerous, especially in hot countries. Those most commonly infesting houses in Europe and North America are Blatta orientalis, a large species often called black beetle, and the Croton bug ( Blatta Germanica, formerly Ectobia Germanica), also called the German cockroach.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, folk etymology (as if from cock + roach) of Spanish cucaracha "chafer, beetle," from cuca "kind of caterpillar." Folk etymology also holds that the first element is from caca "excrement."A certaine India Bug, called by the Spaniards a Cacarootch, the which creeping into Chests they eat and defile with their ill-sented dung [Capt. John Smith, "Virginia," 1624].
Wiktionary
n. 1 A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order ''Blattodea''. 2 (context offensive slang English) An unhygienic person or a member of a group of people regarded as unhygienic or rapidly procreate. 3 (context offensive slang ethnic slur Rwanda English) A Tutsi.
WordNet
n. any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests [syn: roach]
Wikipedia
A cockroach is an insect of the order Blattodea. "Cockroach" may also refer to:
Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattodea, which also includes termites. About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. About four species are well known as pests.
The cockroaches are an ancient group, dating back at least as far as the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago. Those early ancestors however lacked the internal ovipositors of modern roaches. Cockroaches are somewhat generalized insects without special adaptations like the sucking mouthparts of Hemiptera; they have chewing mouthparts and are likely among the most primitive of living neopteran insects. They are common and hardy insects, and can tolerate a wide range of environments from Arctic cold to tropical heat. Tropical cockroaches are often much bigger than temperate species, and, contrary to popular belief, extinct cockroach relatives and 'roachoids' such as the Carboniferous Archimylacris and the Permian Apthoroblattina were not as large as the biggest modern species.
Some species, such as the gregarious German cockroach, have an elaborate social structure involving common shelter, social dependence, information transfer and kin recognition. Cockroaches have appeared in human culture since classical antiquity. They are popularly depicted as dirty pests, though the great majority of species are inoffensive and live in a wide range of habitats around the world.
Cockroach is a Danger Danger album released in 2001 as a 2-CD set. One CD features singer Ted Poley and the other CD features singer Paul Laine.
The album was recorded in 1993 while Ted Poley was still the lead singer of the band. Shortly after finishing it, Poley left the band and Paul Laine was hired as its new singer; he re-recorded the vocals in 1994. However, Poley sued the band and the label prohibiting its release. Epic decided to shelve it and the band went on with their career. The album was also the first to be recorded after Danger Danger parted ways with keyboardist Kasey Smith.
In 2001, Epic decided to release the album as a 2-CD set, including both versions. In 2004, Poley rejoined the band.
Cockroach is a dark comedy book by Canadian author Rawi Hage. It was released in 2008, published by W.W. Norton & Company. It is a teen/adult book for advanced literature.
Usage examples of "cockroach".
The relief proved short, however, for the ambar turned out to be some sort of arthropod, something like a gigantic cockroach the size of a lobster, half buried under other ambiguous objects and an oily sauce that had been poured over all.
Despite my oft-noted resemblance to a cockroach or a crab you are much more closely related to your order crustacea or arthropoda than I.
Like cockroaches and the coelacanth, bats have been around for more than fifty million years in more or less the form that you see them now.
Charlie is brave: he started a coffeehouse by talking his bank into giving him a loan on his house back in the days when you only saw rats, cockroaches, derelicts, and Charlie himself on the streets of Old Town.
One by one they had left home rather than give up their addiction, and now shared an apartment in a complex inhabited by cokeheads, crackheads, winos, cockroaches, and rats.
Joseph Wolpe used desensitization with a patient fearful of cockroaches.
Few were interesting or unusual: a number of brown hairstreaks, some Camberwell beauties, three hissing cockroaches, several brimstones.
It was an unsavory and fetid concoction of warmed headcheese, sprinkles of curdled milk, and fish scales, garnished on top with a dead cockroach.
It was aware of them, but only as a cockroach might be aware of the jars and boxes in the cupboard it inhabits, as potential sources of what it needed.
Imps and lemures and skeletal men hunkered and scuttled like cockroaches exposed to the blinding flare of Lady Polaris and her power.
Even though shaped a bit like a cockroach, my Lovebug can produce the stuff inside her teeny little heart.
While the capsules still floated high above the ground, small openings ejected newly revived impregnated queens of the honeybee, the Asian carpenter bee, and the bumblebee, as well as fireflies, caddis flies, nonbiting midges, cockroaches, and lac bugs.
It was as if a great German cockroach had grown to maybe one-and-three-quarters of a meter tall and in proportion, then developed thick hind legs that allowed it to walk bipedally, with the underside up.
And since rats and cockroaches live in sewers, city dwellers should make sure that shower and bath drains have strainers.
Fossilized cockroaches indicate that it has existed for three hundred and sixty million years, virtually unchanged.