Definition of Blackbeetle 1. Noun. Dark brown cockroach
originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution.
Generic synonyms: Cockroach, Roach Group relationships: Blatta,
Genus Blatta Click the following link to bring up a new window
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Literary usage of Blackbeetle Below you will find example usage
of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature: 1.
The Metropolitan (1833) "Several. A song, a song. Come,
O'Sullivan, tip us a stave. O'A'. With all possible
alacrity—hurrah my boys, here goes ! Gaffer blackbeetle, pray
where are ..." 2. Confessio Medici by Stephen Paget (1908)
"Suddenly, into this abstract environment, enter, by chance, a
mouse and a blackbeetle. What do they make of it all ? How does
it strike them ? ..." 3. The Contemporary Review (1898) "The
blackbeetle is universally detested and trampled upon, ... The
blackbeetle to betray Our Lord in His flight to E