Blattaria

Blattaria
noun
cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order
• Hypernyms: ↑animal order
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dictyoptera, ↑order Dictyoptera

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\\bləˈta(a)rēə, -ter-\ noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Blatta + -aria
: an order of medium to large-sized broadly oval flattened cursorial insects consisting of the roaches and having the head concealed from above beneath the pronotum, strong chewing mouthparts, long many-jointed antennae, two pairs of wings when present with the forewings membranous and veined, prominent jointed cerci at the end of the abdomen, incomplete metamorphosis, and eggs produced in an ootheca

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