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n. Any of numerous oval, flat-bodied insects of the family Blattidae, including several species that are common household pests.

n. A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea.

n. An unhygienic person or a member of a group of people regarded as unhygienic or rapidly procreating.

n. An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

n. The popular name of the insects of the orthopterous genus Blatta, in a broad sense comprising several species, of which B. (Periplaneta) orientalis, the common cockroach or black beetle, may be regarded as the type.

n. any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

""You have the balloon effect for shifting coca production, what I call the cockroach effect for how the cartels jump from one region to the next, and then there's the whack-a-mole policy to try to deal with all of it," says Bruce Bagley, a political scientist at the University of Miami and an expert on the global drug trade."

dictyopterous insect   

european cockroach    american cockroach    australian cockroach   

black beetle    German cockroach    american cockroach    blattella germanica    giant cockroach    asiatic cockroach    periplaneta americana    Croton bug    oriental cockroach    australian cockroach   

termite    flea    grasshopper    louse    beetle    moth    vermin    earthworm    ant    locust