american cockroach

English Thesaurus

1. large reddish brown free-flying cockroach originally from southern United States but now widely distributed (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	cockroach, roach,
definition	:	any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus periplaneta, periplaneta,
definition	:	cosmopolitan genus of large cockroaches (noun.animal)