Resembling or relating to cockroaches; having cockroach-like characteristics.
From Latin blatta (cockroach) plus Greek -oid (resembling), a suffix commonly used in scientific terminology to indicate similarity without exact classification.
The -oid suffix is brilliant for science—it lets us say 'cockroach-like' without claiming something IS a cockroach, which is exactly what we need when creatures share evolutionary features.
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