What's the difference between penguinery and rookery?

Penguinery


Definition:

  • (n.) A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.

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Rookery


Definition:

  • (n.) The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves.
  • (n.) A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc.
  • (n.) The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
  • (n.) A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
  • (n.) A brothel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spring is in the air here too: in the nearby churchyard at West Huntspill, the rookery is thronged with nesting birds.
  • (2) An infant northern fur seal (Callhorinus ursinus) died in a rookery on St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska.
  • (3) I think it will eventually, but at this moment we have to go where we can get the supplies from.” Production staff at the Rookery are working across 11 production lines.
  • (4) The epizootic primarily affected juvenile or subadult male California sea lions migrating northward from breeding rookeries of southern California's Channel Islands.
  • (5) On the factory floor at the Rookery, group production manager Nick Speed says the ups and downs of the business, as well as seasonal changes tend not to affect its UK production lines, because the British manufacturing operation is given priority over factories overseas.
  • (6) The boys' "rookeries" were run by Italian gangmasters in Clerkenwell's Little Italy, but in keeping with contemporary suspicion and hostility to Jews Dickens made Fagin Jewish – something he later regretted.
  • (7) So our workloads tend to be pretty constant.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest At work on the production line at Mulberry’s Rookery factory in Somerset.
  • (8) We’ve only got two Mulberry-owned factories – the Rookery and the Willows – and we always make sure that they are filled first.
  • (9) These results are used to conclude that leptospirosis is not acquired primarily on the breeding rookeries but rather is more frequently acquired subsequent to the purps leaving the rookeries, presumably through the food chain during their first pelagic cycle.
  • (10) Dozens of state parks and recreation areas line the coast, featuring tide pools, seal rookeries, sea stacks and lighthouses.
  • (11) Over the past three years, the Rookery has been extended to increase capacity, and the Willows was opened as Mulberry brought its remaining UK production back in-house.
  • (12) He played in Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache at the Arts theatre and went on tour as Gerald Popkiss in Ben Travers's Rookery Nook, before giving an irresistible Roland Maule, the importunate playwright from Uckfield, in Coward's Present Laughter, at the Vaudeville in 1965.
  • (13) The Watford fans flooded onto the pitch, and while they were kept to the Rookery Stand half by stewards, this blocked off the route to the tunnel, meaning Knockeart and his team-mates were forced to wait for the undulating ecstasy to subside.
  • (14) A nearby breeding rookery on the same island was apparently unaffected.
  • (15) Between 130,000 and 150,000 square feet of leather is cut at the Rookery every month.
  • (16) About 60% of its products are made in Somerset factories: there’s the Rookery, in the village of Chilcompton in a fold of the Mendip hills, and the Willows, which opened last year about an hour down the road in Bridgwater.
  • (17) Our data suggest that walking 200 km (from the sea to the rookery and back) requires less than 15% of the energy reserves of a breeding male emperor penguin initially weighing 35 kg.
  • (18) Genotypic ratios within clutches of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) embryos, from the Mon Repos rookery (Queensland), deviate significantly from the Mendelian ratios expected on the null hypothesis of single paternity.
  • (19) During the antarctic winter emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) spend up to four mo fasting while they breed at rookeries 80 km or more from the sea, huddling close together in the cold.

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