roosting
present participle ofroost
| 单词 | roosting |
| 释义 | roosting present participle ofroost roost verb[I] uk/ruːst/us/ruːst/Whenbirdsroost, they gosomewheretorestorsleep. Animal (non-human) behaviour
Idiomcome back/home to roost Examplesofroostingroosting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. On one occasion we saw three individualsroostingtogether about 10 m above the ground beneath a disused bird's nest. From theCambridge English Corpus Reduced-wing or wingless flies are associated with various unrelated clades of bats, seemingly without regard toroostinghabits. From theCambridge English Corpus However, palms are alsoroostingsites for frugivorous bats which may disperse small seeds to palm sites. From theCambridge English Corpus Families likewise varied considerably in characteristicroostingstructures. From theCambridge English Corpus We often findroostingbats by accident and such discoveries can change our view of the situations in which bats roost. From theCambridge English Corpus Correlations betweenroostinghabits and levels of parasitism are low when all bats are considered. From theCambridge English Corpus Individual females were also foundroostingsequentially with up to three different males. From theCambridge English Corpus Overwintering sites were also censused during late morning to exclude the unlikely possibility that inhabitants were simplyroosting(and otherwise reproductively active). From theCambridge English Corpus In so doing, descriptions of resource location, individual home range and resource use (flower host,roostingplace, etc.) were provided. From theCambridge English Corpus Theseroostingstructures vary in durability from transient to permanent. From theCambridge English Corpus Rankingroostingstructures by durability and protection, we sought correlations among bat species in prevalence, mean intensity and number of associated fly species. From theCambridge English Corpus An alternative explanation is that a given sample of diurnalroostinggroups will include only those males that have successfully defended territories and recruited females. From theCambridge English Corpus Because they feed on high-quality fruits, understorey frugivores feed in a series of discontinuous bouts separated by long periods ofroostingor sleeping. From theCambridge English Corpus However,roostinghabits alone do not explain the absence or paucity of streblid flies from these families. From theCambridge English Corpus On all three occasions, the raptor caught the animal in theroostingtree and then carried its prey off to another perch. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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