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Rookery vs Rootery - What's the difference?

rookery | rootery |

As nouns the difference between rookery and rootery

is that rookery is a colony of breeding birds or other animals while rootery is a pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc, and used as a garden decoration.

rookery

Noun

(rookeries)
  • A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
  • A crowded tenement.
  • (British) a place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
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  • rootery

    English

    Noun

    (rooteries)
  • A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as a garden decoration.
  • (Webster 1913)