Usually means: Birds resting or sleeping on perch.
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  1. roosting: Merriam-Webster
  2. roosting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. roosting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Roosting, roosting: Wordnik
  5. roosting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. roosting: Wiktionary
  7. Roosting, roosting: Dictionary.com
  8. roosting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Roosting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Roosting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Roosting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. roosting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. roosting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. roosting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. roosting: Encyclopedia

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  1. roosting: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (roosting)

▸ noun:  The place or period where a creature roosts.

Similar:
perch, rest, barn, roastery, rooftop, rooftree, housetop, nestling, rooflet, berthing, more...

Opposite:
perching, flying, migrating

Adjectives:
communal, early, fine, gregarious, safe, daytime, suitable, important, blackbird, dry, nocturnal



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Similar:
perch, rest, barn, roastery, rooftop, rooftree, housetop, nestling, rooflet, berthing, more...

Opposite:
perching, flying, migrating

Adjectives:
communal, early, fine, gregarious, safe, daytime, suitable, important, blackbird, dry, nocturnal



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