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black beetle

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black beetle
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for the oriental cockroach (see cockroach)


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It was a large black beetle with formidable jaws -- a "pinchbug," he called it.
Pickwick, looking about him for fear he should tread on some overgrown black beetle, or dropsical spider.
We shall have Cabinet Ministers running about the place like black beetles.
 
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