noun. Any of numerous insects of the order or suborder Blattaria, having oval flat bodies and laying eggs in hardened cases, and including several species that are common household pests.

noun. 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.

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

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

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

noun. 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."

american cockroach  australian cockroach  european cockroach  

dictyopterous insect  

Croton bug  German cockroach  american cockroach  asiatic cockroach  australian cockroach  

ant  bat  beetle  bug  caterpillar