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One of the craziest oddities of the English language is that there are so many different collective nouns that all mean "group" but which are specific to what particular thing there is a group of: a herd of elephants, a crowd of people, a box of crayons, a pad of paper, etc.
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A pride of lions, a murder of crows, a crash of rhinos, and every other collective noun for animals. This is a listing of every animal congregation I could find after scouring the web. If you see any missing, let me know.
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Terms used to describe a group of animals, for example a herd of cows. These descriptive words are known as collective nouns or nouns of assemblage. ... Animal Name...
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Animal Congregations, or What Do You Call a Group of.....? ... Whatever the motivating factor, we have received a spate of questions on collective nouns or group names for all sorts of critters. Perhaps the following, gleaned and compiled from several sources, will help.
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Animals - Some Collective Nouns. By popular request... An ambush of tigers; An array of hedgehogs; An army of ants/caterpillars/frogs; An ascension of larks ...
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Collective noun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects, where "objects" can be people, animals, emotions, inanimate things, concepts, or other things. For example, in the phra...
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List of animal names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This lists names of animals used depending on the context. Many species of animals, particularly those domesticated, have been given specific names for the male, the female, and the young of the spe...
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An aarmory of aardvarks (-submitted by ojo6-) ... A collective of nouns (-suggested by Bruce Crichton, rainbow1@jax-inter.net-) ... A propriety of nouns (-suggested by RP4-)
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Collective nouns for groups of animals are fun. Everyone knows that a group of fish is a school and a bunch of geese is a gaggle. But did you know that a group of squirrels is a dray and a bunch of badgers is a cete? ... UEN » www.Activities » Animal Collective Nouns - UEN...
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Collective nouns for animals courtesy of the Macquarie Dictionary ... Scholars from the 19th century onwards have been diligent in reproducing these medieval lists, with greater or lesser accuracy, so that many of these terms are today still known as "proper" terms for a group of some stated animal or bird;
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