Meaning & use
roosting
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Settling or resting, as a bird does on a perch, especially for the night.
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A dozen pigeons were roosting on the ledge outside the office window.
Bats spend the daylight hours roosting upside down in the cave.
A note on using this word
Often part of the idiom chickens coming home to roost, meaning that one's past actions eventually catch up with them.
Words with a similar meaning
perchingnesting
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