Collective Terms for Groups of Three Animals

This section is a pretty comprehensive list of Collective Terms for Animals. Many will be familiar but others will be unheard of, deriving from 15th century witticisms or literary imagination, and some are simply archaic or erroneous. There are also some terms for pairs of animals and groups of three animals.


The list has been arranged alphabetically.


Here is the list of Collective Terms for Groups of Three Animals.


animal collective term notes
 
bucks leash  
 
conies couple and a half  
 
fish leash  
 
foxes leash  
 
greyhounds leash  
 
hares leash  
 
hawks leash let fly
 
hounds couple and a half  
 
snipe leash dead
 

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