German cockroach

German cockroach

noun
a common yellowish-brown cockroach, Blatta germanica, brought into the U.S. from Europe.
Also called crotonbug.


Origin:
1895–1900
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German cockroach is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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German cockroach
 
n
Also called (US): Croton bug a small cockroach, Blattella germanica: a common household pest

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