rookery
- n a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)
- Near New Berlin, the Illinois Conservation Department bombing crew set off their 13th rookery blast of the season.
- A rumpled, outdoor type who likes to meditate in his cabin in the Maine woods, Lawyer Driscoll, now 62, transplanted company headquarters from a Manhattan rookery to the suburban .
- Vatican City has always been a rookery of rumors; the highest-flying ones these days have to do with the next consistory.