Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun american_cockroach

1 sense of american cockroach

Sense 1
American cockroach, Periplaneta americana -- (large reddish brown free-flying cockroach originally from southern United States but now widely distributed)
       => cockroach, roach -- (any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests)