oriental roach

1. 1.

   dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution

   Synonymsoriental cockroachAsiatic cockroachblackbeetleBlatta orientalis

   Broadercockroach

   Part ofBlatta

Questions about oriental roach

What does oriental roach mean?

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

What is another word for oriental roach?

Close synonyms include oriental cockroach, Asiatic cockroach, 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 oriental roach a common word?

oriental roach 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.