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Collective Terms for Groups of Animals
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group or collective term |
notes |
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| albatross |
rookery |
strictly, a breeding-place, not a group term |
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| angel fish |
host |
possibly invented (after `a host of angels) |
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| ants |
army |
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| bike |
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| colony |
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| swarm |
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| antelope |
cluster |
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| herd |
standard |
| tribe |
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| apes |
shrewdness |
fanciful |
| troop |
standard |
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| archer fish |
company |
possibly invented (after `a company of archers') |
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| asses |
coffle |
probably a term for a roped line |
| drove |
properly, when driven in a group |
| herd |
standard |
| pace or passe |
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| auks |
colony |
on land |
| flock |
at sea |
| raft |
on water: used of other waterfowl. |
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| avocets |
colony |
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