Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Plurals

A group of apes is called a shrewdness.
A group of bucks is called a clash.
A group of cobras is called a quiver
A group of cows is called a kine. A group of twelve cows is called a flink.
A group of crocodiles is called a float.
A group of curs (or mutts) is called a cowardice.
A group of goldfinches is called a charm.
A group of grayhounds is called a leash.
A group of hawks is called a kettle.
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
A group of moles is called a labour.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of peacocks is called an ostentation.
A group of pheasants is called a bouquet.
A group of rattlesnakes is called a rhumba.
A group of ravens is called an unkindness.
A group of rhino is called a crash.
A group of rooks is called a building or a clamour.
A group of starlings is called a murmuration.
A group of swans is called a lamentation.
A group of turtledoves is called a pitying.
A group of woodpeckers is called a descent.

4 comments:

Rachel said...

Logan wanted you to know he liked this post.

Anonymous said...

I want to know if a group of cardinals might be a college?

(from just another of your admiring anonymous readership...)

Maddie said...

According to my intense research (a quick search on google), a group of cardinals can be called a college, a conclave, a deck, a radiance, or a Vatican.

Keep up this anonymous stuff and I'll have to assume that you're related to me.

Anonymous said...

And a collective noun to describe squirrels; this one is my fave, I must admit: a quarrel.

[Not related but still Anonymous, really. And don't worry, not admiring in any particularly creepy way(s) either. and not grandparently ways. Just geeky ones.]