Definition of "heronry" [her•on•ry]

• A place where herons nest and breed. (noun)

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• "Something must be done, he saw, to retrieve his credit: ad the heronry was his resource."
• "Sleepy cormorants fly into the heronry in a tall alder beyond the mere."
• "Nereids, and other fabulous deities of the seas and rivers, made its appearance upon the lake, and issuing from behind a small heronry where it had been concealed, floated gently towards the farther end of the bridge."