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单词 cockroach
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cockroach
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒk.rəʊtʃ/us
/ˈkɑːk.roʊtʃ/
(USinformalroach)
aflat,brownorblackinsectsometimesfoundin thehome
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(Definition ofcockroachfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
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)
aflatbrownorblackinsectsometimesfoundin ahouse
(Definition ofcockroachfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcockroach

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In one project an artificialcockroachhas been built that models the original in great detail.
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The aim being to create acockroachperfume that could be sprayed onto the robot.
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Excerpts 3 and 4 were both stories about the child's experience of being frightened by acockroach.
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This allows it to infiltrate thecockroachcommunity.
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There was acockroachand a fly at our house too.
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The properties of such formulations of a number of pyrethroid insecticides used forcockroachcontrol are currently under investigation.
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