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Collective Terms for Groups of Animals
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| animal |
group or collective term |
notes |
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| baboons |
flange |
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| troop |
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| badgers |
cete |
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| colony |
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| set or sett |
the badger's den or burrow; not a group term |
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| barbels |
shoal |
cited from Holme 1688 |
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| barracuda |
battery |
possibly invented |
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| bass |
fleet |
possibly invented |
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| bats |
cloud |
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| colony |
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| bears |
sleuth or sloth |
also spelt sleuthe, slewthe, slought, slowth |
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| beavers |
colony |
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| bees, wild |
bike or byke |
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| bees |
cast |
`an afterswarm' (i.e. a second swarm) |
| cluster |
specifically, of workers around the queen |
| colony |
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| drift |
when swarming |
| erst |
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| fry |
term for young bees; not a group term |
| game |
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| grist |
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| hive |
strictly, the hive itself, and hence the inhabitants |
| rabble |
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| stand |
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| swarm |
standard |
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| birds |
dissimulation |
fanciful |
| fleet |
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| flight |
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| flock |
standard |
| parcel |
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| pod |
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| volary (in an aviary) |
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| bison |
herd |
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| bitterns |
flock |
not specific |
| sege or siege |
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| blackfish |
grind |
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| bloodhounds |
sute |
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| boars |
herd |
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| singular |
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| boars, wild |
sounder |
applies to twelve or more |
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| bucks |
herd |
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| buffalo |
gang |
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| herd |
standard |
| obstinacy |
fanciful |
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| bullfinches |
bellowing |
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| bullocks |
drove |
when driven in a group |
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| bustards |
flock |
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| butterflies |
flight |
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| rabble |
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| butterfly fish |
school |
not specific |
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