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ROACH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
European freshwater food fish having a greenish back
Synonyms:
roach; Rutilus rutilus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("roach" is a kind of...):
cyprinid; cyprinid fish (soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales)
Holonyms ("roach" is a member of...):
genus Rutilus; Rutilus (roaches)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
Synonyms:
cockroach; roach
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("roach" is a kind of...):
dictyopterous insect (cockroaches and mantids)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roach"):
Asiatic cockroach; blackbeetle; Blatta orientalis; oriental cockroach; oriental roach (dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution)
American cockroach; Periplaneta americana (large reddish brown free-flying cockroach originally from southern United States but now widely distributed)
Australian cockroach; Periplaneta australasiae (widely distributed in warm countries)
Blattella germanica; Croton bug; crotonbug; German cockroach; water bug (small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest)
giant cockroach (large tropical American cockroaches)
Holonyms ("roach" is a member of...):
Blattaria; Blattodea; suborder Blattaria; suborder Blattodea (cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Street names for flunitrazepan
Synonyms:
circle; forget me drug; Mexican valium; R-2; roach; roofy; rope; rophy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("roach" is a kind of...):
flunitrazepan; Rohypnol (a depressant and tranquilizer (trade name Rohypnol) often used in the commission of sexual assault; legally available in Europe and Mexico and Colombia)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The butt of a marijuana cigarette
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("roach" is a kind of...):
butt; stub (the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking))
Sense 5
Meaning:
A roll of hair brushed back from the forehead
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("roach" is a kind of...):
coif; coiffure; hair style; hairdo; hairstyle (the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair))
Derivation:
roach (comb (hair) into a roach)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut the mane off (a horse)
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "roach" is one way to...):
chop off; cut off; lop off (remove by or as if by cutting)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Comb (hair) into a roach
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "roach" is one way to...):
comb (straighten with a comb)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
roach (a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead)
