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blackbeetle

/blak-beet-l/US // ˈblækˌbit l //

黑甲虫,黑甲壳虫,黑甲鱼,黑甲蟲

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : oriental cockroach.

Examples

  • If a blackbeetle crawls across it it suffers a sort of paralysis.

  • Worst of all, I was victimised by the presence of a blackbeetle in a plate of clear soup served me at my club.

  • It is to the death, and has been going on for years, the combatants being the red cockroach and the blackbeetle.

  • The blackbeetle problem they solve by planting tomato slips inclosed in paper.

  • Shouting would frighten a burglar, or a rat, but would have no effect on a blackbeetle, or a ghost.