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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

More nouns

Yesterday I started a list of collective nouns for animal groups.  Today I continue...

a colony of ants, beavers, gulls, penguins, seals, easels
a company of parrots
a congregation of alligators
a conspiracy of ravens
a convocation of eagles
a corps of giraffes
a coterie of prairie dogs
a covey of quail
a crash of rhinoceros
a den of snakes
a descent of woodpeckers
a dole of turkeys
a down of hares
a dray of squirrels
a drift od swine
a drove of asses, cattle, oxen, swine
a dude of doves
an exaltation of larks
a family of beavers, sardines
a flamboyance of flamingos a flight of doves, swallows
a float of crocodiles
a flock of camels, ducks, goats, sheep, turkeys
a flutter of butterflies
a fold of sheep

Okay, enough for today.  I'd never heard of some of these.  How 'bout you?

To be continued.....

Meanwhile have a gorgeous day.

1 comment:

HermitJim said...

How cool that you found all these! Thanks for sharing them with us!