Look up: Rookery


  1. Rookery
    Rookery is slang for a row or disturbance.
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  2. Rookery
    Rookery is slang for a row or disturbance.
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  3. Rookery
    [slum] A rookery (also sometimes described as a stew) was the colloquial British English term given in the 18th and 19th centuries to a city slum occupied by poor people and frequently also by criminals and prostitutes. Such areas were overcrowded, with low-quality housing and little or no s...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rookery_(slum)

  4. Rookery
    A breeding colony of birds or animals.
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  5. rookery
    [n] - a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=rookery

  6. Rookery
    Rook'er·y noun ; plural Rookeries 1. The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. Tennyson. 2. A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc. 3. The bree...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/92

  7. rookery
    noun a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)
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  8. Rookery
    • (n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc. • (n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings. • (n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals. • (n.) The breeding place of a colo...
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  1. Rookery
    A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally birds. A rook is a Northern European and Central Asian member of the crow family, which nest in prominent colonies (multiple nests) at the tops of trees. The term is applied to the nesting place of birds, such as crows and rooks, the source of th...
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  2. Rookery
    A rookery is a colony of rooks, penguins or seals.
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  3. Rookery
    A breeding ground, especially of gregarious birds or mammals; also a colony of such birds or mammals
    Found op http://www.oceanoasis.org/fieldguide/glossary.html

  4. rookery
    nesting place for rooks, birds that were related to the crow. David Copperfield's childhood home in Blunderstone was called the Rookery. Rookery was also used to denote an urban slum.
    Found op http://charlesdickenspage.com/glossary.html

  5. rookery
    a breeding place; often used to describe breeding places for seals and seabirds
    Found op http://www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures/glossary/

  6. Rookery
    [disambiguation] A rookery is a colony of breeding birds and some marine mammals. Rookery may also refer to: ...
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  7. rookery
    a place where birds of the same species breed and nest, especially herons and egrets
    Found op http://www.njwildlifetrails.org/OutontheTrails/GlossaryofNaturerelatedTerms

  8. rookery
    1) Breeding ground 2) Colony of rooks, penguins or seals 3) Dilapidated tenement
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/rookery/1

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