List of collective nouns for fish, invertebrates, and plants: Information from Answers.com

Collective nouns for animals
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Noun	Collectives	Source
Fish
bass	shoal	^[1]
blackfish	grind	^{[citation needed]}
cod	lap	^{[citation needed]}
eel	fry	^{[citation needed]}
eel	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]}
salmon	run	^{[citation needed]}
sharks	shiver	^{[citation needed]}
stingrays	fever	^{[citation needed]}
tilapia	taint	^{[citation needed]}
trouts	hover	^{[citation needed]}
whales	pod	^[4]
Invertebrates (arthropods, molluscs, and microbes)
ants	colony	^[5]
	swarm	^[2]
	army	^[6]
bacteria	culture	^[7]
bees	grist	^{[citation needed]}
	hive	^[8]
	swarm	^[2]
butterflies	flight	^[9]
	flutter	^{[citation needed]}
	kaleidoscope	^{[citation needed]}
	rabble	^{[citation needed]}
	rainbow	^{[citation needed]}
clams	bed	^[10]
cockroaches	intrusion	^{[citation needed]}
crabs	dose	^{[citation needed]}
flies	business	^{[citation needed]}
flies	swarm	^[2]
gnats	cloud	^[11]
	clout	^{[citation needed]}
	horde	^[12]
grasshoppers	cloud	^[11]
grasshoppers	cluster	^[13]
jellyfish	fluther	^{[citation needed]}
jellyfish	smack	^{[citation needed]}
ladybirds	loveliness	^{[citation needed]}
lobsters	risk	^{[citation needed]}
locusts	plague	^[14]
mites	mite	^{[citation needed]}
mosquitoes	scourge	^{[citation needed]}
oysters	bed	^[10]
shrimp	troup	^{[citation needed]}
snail	rout	^{[citation needed]}
spiders	cluster	^[13]
spiders	clutter	^{[citation needed]}
worms	knot	^{[citation needed]}
worms	bryce	^{[citation needed]}
Plants
bananas	hand	^[15]
flowers	bouquet	^[16]
flowers	patch	^[17]
grapes	bunch	^[18]
grapes	cluster	^[13]
leaves	pile	^[19]
trees	grove	^[20]
	copse	^[21]
	stand	^[22]
	thicket	^[21] ^[23]

References

^ ^a ^b shoal². Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [1] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d swarm¹. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [2] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ school². Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [3] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ pod². Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [4] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ colony. Dictionary.com. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. MICRA, Inc. [5] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ army ant. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [6] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ culture. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [7] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ hive. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [8] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ flight¹. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [9] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ ^a ^b bed. Dictionary.com. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. [10] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ ^a ^b cloud. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [11] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ horde. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [12] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ ^a ^b ^c cluster. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [13] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ plague. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [14] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ hand. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [15] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ bouquet. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [16] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ patch. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [17] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ bunch. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [18] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ pile¹. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [19] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ grove. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [20] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ ^a ^b copse. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [21] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ stand. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [22] (accessed: March 27, 2009).
^ thicket. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. [23] (accessed: March 27, 2009).

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