معنى كلمة roost | الترجمة والشرح والأمثلة

معنى كلمة roost بالعربي

مجثم الطائر / محط

النطق: /ɹuːst/ | /ɹʉwst/ | /ɹust/

roost

A roost is a place where birds can land and rest or sleep.

The family of doves made a roost at the top of the tree.

He clapp'd his wings upon his roost.
a roost of birds is merely a fortuitous aggregation of individuals that have strategically placed their roost site to minimize distance to their supplemental and main food sources
A roost of chickens clucked excitedly in the undergrowth to the south of the Mata's enclosure, as a nocturnal snake hunted eggs
Sometimes the whole tract swung to one side, like the tail of a live serpent; sometimes, for a glimpse, it would all disappear and then boil up again. What it was I had no guess, which for the time increased my fear of it; but I now know it must have been the roost or tide race, which had carried me away so fast and tumbled me about so cruelly, and at last, as if tired of that play, had flung out me and the spare yard upon its landward margin.
The UPS package centre for central London, a brief walk from Kentish Town tube station, holds a below-ground bay in which 170 vans roost every night.

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roosts, roosting, roosted