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词汇 cockroach
释义 cockroach
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkɒk.rəʊtʃ/ us /ˈkɑːk.roʊtʃ/(USinformalroach)
a flat, brown or black insect sometimes found in the home蟑螂
 
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Examples from literature

From the collection, they identified 95 species, including a new kind of cockroach never identified before. 
The hill was covered in hundreds of thousands of busy, waste-eating cockroaches! 
Ants, cockroaches, mice, and other pests infest dirty places where food is kept, and render a house unfit for human habitation. 
Cockroaches, and all vermin, have an aversion to spirits of turpentine. 
I used to wonder at the ease with which a cockroach can climb a perfectly smooth wall and run across the ceiling. 

cockroach | American Dictionary


cockroach
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑk·roʊtʃ/(short formroach)
a flat brown or black insect sometimes found in a house

Examples of cockroach


cockroach
In one project an artificial cockroach has been built that models the original in great detail.
The aim being to create a cockroach perfume that could be sprayed onto the robot.
Excerpts 3 and 4 were both stories about the child's experience of being frightened by a cockroach.
This allows it to infiltrate the cockroach community.
There was a cockroach and a fly at our house too.
The properties of such formulations of a number of pyrethroid insecticides used for cockroach control are currently under investigation.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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