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Another word for roach

Noun

  1. An insect

    2. See also:

    insect

  2. *The butt end of a marijuana cigarette

    3. See also:

    reefer

    marijuana

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Sentence Examples

  • It lies on the small river Roach, near the head of a long estuary.

  • For descriptions of other Cyprinids than the carp, see Goldfish, Barbel, Gudgeon, Rudd, Roach, Chub, Dace, Minnow, Tench, Bream, Bleak, Bitterling, Mahseer.

  • As soon as the ice breaks up in the delta innumerable shoals of roach (Leuciscus rutilus) and trout (Luciotrutta leucichthys) rush up the river.

  • It readily crosses with the white bream, and more rarely with the roach and bleak.

  • I started catching small dace and roach straightaway by fishing about 10 inches overdepth.

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