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Blackbeetle   Listen
Blackbeetle

noun
1.
Dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.  Synonyms: Asiatic cockroach, Blatta orientalis, oriental cockroach, oriental roach.





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"Blackbeetle" Quotes from Famous Books



... really mean my words to be taken in their direct, literal, and straightforward sense. In fact, if the most nimble-fingered watchmaker among you will come to my workshop, he may set me to put a watch together, and I will set him to dissect, say, a blackbeetle's nerves. I do not wish to vaunt, but I am inclined to think that I shall manage my job to his satisfaction sooner than he will do his piece ...
— Science & Education • Thomas H. Huxley


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