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Definition of American cockroach

1. Noun. Large reddish brown free-flying cockroach originally from southern United States but now widely distributed.

Definition of American cockroach

1. Noun. (zoology) The palmetto bug, ''Periplaneta americana'' See cockroach ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of American Cockroach

Literary usage of American cockroach

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"The species found in American houses are the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), the German cockroach or croton bug ..."

2. How to Recognize and Eliminate Silverfish, Beetles, Cockroaches, Moths by Thomas A. Parker (1991)
"The American cockroach. - The American cockroach (Figure 9) .* . ... The American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (L.) is very damaging to paper products ..."

3. Evolution and the War by Peter Chalmers Mitchell (1915)
"The American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, is a reddish-brown creature, strong on the wing in both sexes, and attains a huge size—from an inch and a ..."

4. Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests ... with Methods of by Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1898)
"(MB) The Periplaneta americana, the American cockroach or Black Beetle, is yet another kind which may need looking after here more than is commonly supposed ..."

5. Gleanings from Nature by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1899)
"The American cockroach, Periplaneta americana (L.), is, as its name implies, a native of 'this country, but, like the Oriental roach,it has spread to the ..."

6. Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man by Glenn Washington Herrick (1914)
"Perhaps next to the croton-bug the American cockroach, ... American cockroach. (X 1.) Kellogg, in "American Insects," says that a friend of his in Mazatlan, ..."

7. Annual Report by Entomological Society of Ontario, Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture (1894)
"These are the American cockroach (Periplaneta Americana), ... As lar as my limited experience goes, the first named, the American cockroach (Fig. ..."

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