Word.ws English Dictionary

hissing cockroach

hissing cockroach noun: any member of the tribe Gromphadorhini of large, flightless, wood-inhabiting cockroaches that can produce a hissing sound by forcing air through their abdominal spiracles.

Noun

hissing cockroach (plural hissing cockroaches)

  1. Any member of the tribe Gromphadorhini of large, flightless, wood-inhabiting cockroaches that can produce a hissing sound by forcing air through their abdominal spiracles.

Forms of hissing cockroach

pluralhissing cockroaches

Words formed from hissing cockroach

Questions about hissing cockroach

What does hissing cockroach mean?
Hissing cockroach means any member of the tribe Gromphadorhini of large, flightless, wood-inhabiting cockroaches that can produce a hissing sound by forcing air through their abdominal spiracles.
What part of speech is hissing cockroach?
Hissing cockroach is a noun.
What is the plural of hissing cockroach?
The plural of hissing cockroach is hissing cockroaches.

Words near hissing cockroach in the dictionary

  1. hissiest
  2. hissily
  3. hissiness
  4. hissing
  5. hissing adder
  6. hissing cockroach
  7. hissing cockroaches
  8. hissing hot
  9. hissingly
  10. hissings
  11. Hissong

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hissing cockroach (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hissing cockroach.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hissing_cockroach. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.