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oriental cockroach
noun
- a dark-brown cockroach, Blatta orientalis, thought to have originated in Asia but now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
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Cros described an interesting reaction that he called "instinctive hostility" of the oriental cockroach toward Prosevania.
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