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

1 sense of asiatic cockroach

Sense 1
oriental cockroach, oriental roach, Asiatic cockroach, blackbeetle, Blatta orientalis -- (dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution)
       => cockroach, roach -- (any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests)