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# cockroach

«cockroach» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large brown or black insect with long feelers that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cockroach, cockroaches); informal roach (USA)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cockroach is a large brown or black insect with long feelers that lives in warm, dirty places and can spread germs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockroach/#m1)

2) (insult) Calling a person a cockroach is very rude and hateful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockroach/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons cockroaches are insects with six legs and a body in three parts, and they are very tough survivors. In everyday life and hygiene, they show a kitchen is not clean; food should be covered and crumbs cleared. Myth: they could survive anything — they are tough, but not unbeatable.

### examples

- A cockroach ran across the kitchen floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockroach/#x1)
- Cockroaches like warm, dark places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockroach/#x2)
- Clean up crumbs so you don't get cockroaches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockroach/#x3)
- A cockroach has six legs and two long feelers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockroach/#x4)
- Some cockroaches can fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockroach/#x5)
- The museum has giant hissing cockroaches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockroach/#x6)

### note

Plural «cockroaches». In the USA often shortened to «roach». Calling people «cockroaches» is hateful language and must never be used.

### In the corpora

- [A mouse wants crumbs, a cockroach wants dark damp corners, and a clothes moth's caterpillar wants your wool jumper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/4/)
- [A cockroach can live for a while without its head, because it breathes through holes along its body, not through its mouth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cockroach» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cockroach/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.