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List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants

 
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Noun Collectives Source
Fish
bass shoal [1]
blackfish grind [citation needed]
cod lap [citation needed]
eel fry [citation needed]
swarm [2]
fish draught [citation needed]
drift [citation needed]
scale [citation needed]
school [3]
shoal [1]
goldfish troubling [citation needed]
herrings glean [citation needed]
salmon bind [citation needed]
run [citation needed]
sharks shiver [citation needed]
stingrays fever [citation needed]
tilapia taint [citation needed]
trouts hover [citation needed]
Invertebrates (arthropods, molluscs, and microbes)
ants colony [4]
swarm [2]
army [5]
bacteria culture [6]
bees grist [citation needed]
hive [7]
swarm [2]
butterflies flight [8]
flutter [citation needed]
kaleidoscope [citation needed]
rabble [citation needed]
rainbow [citation needed]
clams bed [9]
cockroaches intrusion [citation needed]
crabs dose [citation needed]
flies business [citation needed]
swarm [2]
gnats cloud [10]
clout [citation needed]
horde [11]
grasshoppers cloud [10]
cluster [12]
jellyfish fluther [citation needed]
smack [citation needed]
ladybirds loveliness [citation needed]
lobsters risk [citation needed]
locusts plague [13]
mites mite [citation needed]
mosquitoes scourge [citation needed]
oysters bed [9]
shrimp troup [citation needed]
snail rout [citation needed]
spiders cluster [12]
clutter [citation needed]
worms knot [citation needed]
bryce [citation needed]
Plants
bananas hand [14]
flowers bouquet [15]
patch [16]
grapes bunch [17]
cluster [12]
leaves pile [18]
trees grove [19]
copse [20]
stand [21]
thicket [20][22]

References

  1. ^ a b shoal2. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [1] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  2. ^ a b c d swarm1. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [2] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  3. ^ school2. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [3] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  4. ^ colony. Dictionary.com. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. MICRA, Inc. [4] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  5. ^ army ant. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [5] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  6. ^ culture. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [6] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  7. ^ hive. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [7] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  8. ^ flight1. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [8] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  9. ^ a b bed. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. [9] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  10. ^ a b cloud. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [10] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  11. ^ horde. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [11] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  12. ^ a b c cluster. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [12] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  13. ^ plague. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [13] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  14. ^ hand. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [14] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  15. ^ bouquet. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [15] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  16. ^ patch. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [16] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  17. ^ bunch. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [17] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  18. ^ pile1. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [18] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  19. ^ grove. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [19] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  20. ^ a b copse. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [20] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  21. ^ stand. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [21] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
  22. ^ thicket. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [22] (accessed: March 27, 2009).

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