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anticockroach

anticockroach adjective: combating or repelling cockroaches.

Adjective

anticockroach (not comparable)

  1. Combating or repelling cockroaches.
    • For infested areas, use any of the anticockroach systems currently available.1992, Allen, Missy, Peissel, Michel, 1937-2011, Dangerous insects, page 41
    • But there are many things that you can do in your home to discourage roach populations from building. Among these, my least favorite measure — fastidious housekeeping — has proven to be the most effective anticockroach assurance.1996, Gordon, David G. (David George), 1950-, The compleat cockroach : a comprehensive guide to the most despised (and least understood) creature on earth, page 154

Forms of anticockroach

alternative formanti-cockroach

Origin of anticockroach

From anti- + cockroach.

Questions about anticockroach

What does anticockroach mean?
Anticockroach means combating or repelling cockroaches.
What part of speech is anticockroach?
Anticockroach is an adjective.

Words near anticockroach in the dictionary

  1. anticoccidial
  2. anticoccidials
  3. anticoccidian
  4. anticoccidians
  5. anticoccidiosis
  6. anticockroach
  7. anticode
  8. anticodes
  9. anticoding
  10. anticodon
  11. anticodons

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