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
O.


animal group or collective term notes
otters bevy
family surely not a specific collective
owls parliament
stare
oxen drove when driven in a group
herd
meinie
team (in harness)
yoke (in harness)
oxbirds fling
oysters bed strictly, a place where they grow together
hive



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