Collective Terms for 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 Animals beginning with T.





animal group or collective term notes
teal bunch
coil
knob
raft a dense flock
spring
thrushes mutation
tigers ambush possibly fanciful
toads knob
knot
nest
trout hover
shoal
tunnies flote (float)
troup (troop)
turkeys (male) posse
turkeys rafter
turtles bale possibly an error for `a dule of turtles' (i.e. turtledoves)
turn



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