Usually means: Breeding colonies for birds, seals.
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  1. rookeries: Merriam-Webster
  2. rookeries: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rookeries: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rookeries: Vocabulary.com
  5. Rookeries, rookeries: Wordnik
  6. rookeries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. rookeries: Wiktionary
  8. rookeries: Dictionary.com
  9. Rookeries: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Rookeries: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. rookeries: FreeDictionary.org
  12. rookeries: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rookeries: Encyclopedia

(Note: See rookery as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rookery)

noun:  A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
noun:  (by extension) A crowded tenement.
noun:  (British, historical, by extension) A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
noun:  (military, slang, obsolete) That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns.
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