Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
roach (insect).
Etymologies
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roach + -like
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Examples
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A nice Deletrius spell on Ron's little sister, too minor for anyone to miss if she died, would thin the Weasleys 'roachlike brood.
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A nice Deletrius spell on Ron's little sister, too minor for anyone to miss if she died, would thin the Weasleys 'roachlike brood.
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There was a Brainbox, the roachlike Tek chips, and the electrodes to hook up the box to your skull.
Tek Lab Shatner, William 1991
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Scientific American article on transparent marine animals: siphonophores, Venus's girdles, jellyfish, and roachlike creatures whose needle-shaped guts rendered their partly digested but still-opaque contents as inconspicuous as possible.
Slate Magazine 2009
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