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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Augean stables, birthplace, breeding place, brooder, cradle, dump, forcing bed, hatchery, hole, hotbed, hovel, incubator, nest, nidus, nursery, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, slum, stable, sty, tenement, the slums, warren
Dictionary Results for rookery:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
rookery
    n 1: a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks)

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rookery \Rook"er*y\, n.; pl. Rookeries.
   1. The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds
      themselves. --Tennyson.
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   2. A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons,
      penguins, etc.
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   3. The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals.
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   4. A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a
      cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.
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   5. A brothel. [Low]
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