asiatic cockroach

1. 1.

   dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution

   Synonymsoriental cockroachoriental roachblackbeetleBlatta orientalis

   Broadercockroach

   Part ofBlatta

Questions about asiatic cockroach

What does asiatic cockroach mean?

asiatic cockroach means "dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution".

What is another word for asiatic cockroach?

Close synonyms include oriental cockroach, oriental roach, blackbeetle, Blatta orientalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asiatic cockroach a common word?

asiatic cockroach is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.