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Definition of: Croton bug
A small, light–colored, winged, cosmopolitan cockroach (Blattella germanica): also called German cockroach, water bug.
For illustration see INSECT (injurious). [from Croton Aqueduct; so called because the first serious infestation in New York City occurred shortly after Croton aqueduct was opened in 1842]
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