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 rookery ['rʊkərɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 海豹群, 群栖处, 企鹅群, 贫民窟, 同类人的集中处, 同类物的集中处



    rookery
    [ noun ]
    a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)
    <noun.location>


    Rookery \Rook"er*y\, n.; pl. {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 breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.

    4. A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a
    cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.

    5. A brothel. [Low]

    1. As a result, the expedition leader's advice to take an early Zodiac ashore and catch the last one back was worth heeding. On one of my trips ashore I watched a mass of chin-strap penguins in an odoriferous rookery high on a stony hillside.
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