Definition of Family blattidae

1. Noun. Domestic cockroaches.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Blattidae

family Bangiaceae
family Bathyergidae
family Batidaceae
family Batrachoididae
family Begoniaceae
family Belemnitidae
family Belonidae
family Belostomatidae
family Bennettitaceae
family Berberidaceae
family Betulaceae
family Bible
family Bignoniaceae
family Bittacidae
family Blastodiaceae
family Blattidae
family Blechnaceae
family Blenniidae
family Boidae
family Boletaceae
family Bombacaceae
family Bombycidae
family Bombycillidae
family Bombyliidae
family Boraginaceae
family Bothidae
family Bovidae
family Bradypodidae
family Bramidae
family Branchiobdellidae

Literary usage of Family blattidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Insects Injurious to the Household and Annoying to Man by Glenn Washington Herrick (1914)
"NUMBERS AND DISTRIBUTION OF COCKROACHES The cockroaches belong to the family Blattidae, which is rather closely related to the family of grasshoppers, ..."

2. Convergence in Evolution by Arthur Willey (1911)
"... "brings them almost into touch with the family Blattidae." l Although termites do not employ slaves as some ants do, yet they entertain guests which are ..."

3. The Elements of Animal Biology by Samuel Jackson Holmes (1919)
"... the cockroach family, Blattidae, etc., are grouped into a larger division, or order, called the Orthoptera (orthos, straight, and pier on wing). ..."

4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1916)
"In studying material of the family Blattidae, accidentally introduced in the United States, an undescribed species of ..."

5. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"There are no less than a thousand species of the family Blattidae. Four of these have become domesticated and cosmopolitan. They are Periplaneta americana, ..."

6. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture by Nitya Gopal Mukerji (1901)
"... (i) The commonest example of this order will be found in the Periplaneta orientali«, the ordinary cockroach, belonging to the family Blattidae. ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Family blattidae on Dictionary.com!Search for Family blattidae on Thesaurus.com!Search for Family blattidae on Google!Search for Family blattidae on Wikipedia!

Search