Roach
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Animals

  • Cockroach
    Cockroach
    Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of 4,500 total are associated with human habitations...

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  • Roach (fish)
    Roach (fish)
    The Common Roach is a freshwater and brackish water fish native to most of Europe and western Asia...

    , including
    • Certain members of family Cyprinidae
    • the genus Rutilus
      Rutilus
      Rutilus is a genus of fishes in the family Cyprinidae, commonly called roaches. Locally, the name "roach" without any further qualifiers is also used for particular species, particularly the Common Roach Rutilus (Latin for "shining, red, golden, auburn") is a genus of fishes in the family...

      • Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus)
    • the California Roach
      California roach
      The California roach, Hesperoleucus symmetricus, is a cyprinid fish native to western North America and abundant in the intermittent streams throughout central California. It is the sole member of its genus....

       of the monotypic genus Hesperoleucus

Other

  • Roach (cannabis culture), the butt of a marijuana cigarette
  • Roach (surname)
    Roach (surname)
    Roach is an English surname derived from the Old French roche , and may refer to:-Politics and government:*George Roach , Canadian politician*John C. Roach, American jurist on the Kentucky Supreme Court*William N...

    , people who bear the last name Roach
  • Roach (surname)
    Roach (surname)
    Roach is an English surname derived from the Old French roche , and may refer to:-Politics and government:*George Roach , Canadian politician*John C. Roach, American jurist on the Kentucky Supreme Court*William N...

    , One of the major Clans of the Scottish town of Alloa
  • Roach (headdress)
    Roach (headdress)
    Porcupine hair roaches are a traditional headdress of a number of Native American tribes in what is now present-day New England, the Great Lakes and Missouri River regions, including the Potawatomi who lived where Chicago now stands and the Mohawk tribes. They were and still are most often worn at...

    , traditional Native American headdress usually of porcupine hair
  • Roach, Missouri
    Roach, Missouri
    Roach is an unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri, United States. It is located north of U.S. Route 54 on Missouri Supplemental Route AA about five miles west of Camdenton...

    , an unincorporated community in central Missouri
  • Roach, Nevada
    Roach, Nevada
    Roach, Nevada is a siding on the Union Pacific railroad, between Jean, Nevada and Nipton, California, in Clark County, Nevada, USA.Roach is on the eastern shoreline of Roach Dry Lake, and is below Beer Bottle Pass in the Lucy Gray Mountains to the northeast. Roach's elevation is...

    , a rail siding in southern Nevad
  • Roach, a character in Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...

  • Roach, a variant of the game pool
  • Roach, a Zerg unit from video game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
  • Gary "Roach" Sanderson, a playable character in Modern Warfare 2
  • a part of a sail
  • To clip, shave, or hog the mane of a horse
    Mane (horse)
    The mane is the hair that grows from the top of the neck of a horse or other equine, reaching from the poll to the withers, and includes the forelock or foretop. It is thicker and coarser than the rest of the horse's coat, and naturally grows to roughly cover the neck...

  • a type of conformation of the back of a horse

See also

  • Papa Roach
    Papa Roach
    Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California. Their first major-label release was the triple-platinum album Infest . The group's success continued with their gold album Lovehatetragedy , their platinum album Getting Away with Murder , The Paramour Sessions , and Metamorphosis...

    , an American hard rock band and a food
  • Roach coach
    Food truck
    A food truck, mobile kitchen, mobile canteen, or catering truck is a mobile venue that sells food. Some, including ice cream trucks, sell mostly frozen or prepackaged food; others are more like restaurants-on-wheels...

    , a slang term for a food vending truck
  • Roach stone, a type of Portland Stone
    Portland stone
    Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The quarries consist of beds of white-grey limestone separated by chert beds. It has been used extensively as a building stone throughout the British Isles, notably in major...

    with lots of shell fragments within the stone
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