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black beetle

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black beetle

Another name for cockroach, although cockroaches belong to an entirely different order of insects (Dictyoptera) from the beetles (Coleoptera).



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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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