List of Collective Nouns – 1

Collective Nouns for Animals

• A clutter of spiders
• A barrel of monkeys
• A barren of mules
• A bask of crocodiles
• A battery of barracudas
• A bazaar of guillemots
• A bed of clams/eels/oysters/snakes
• A clan of hyenas
• A bloat of hippos
• An army of ants
• A herd of boars
• A herd of cattle
• A litter of cubs
• A pride of lions
• A troop of monkeys
• A fall of lambs
• A swarm/hive of bees
• A flink of cows
• A swarm of flies
• A bed of cockles
• A caravan of camels
• A flutter of butterflies

• A tower of giraffes
• A yoke of oxen
• A pod of whales
• A kennel of dogs
• A flight of dragons
• A bale of turtles
• A clowder of cats
• A cluster of bees/grasshoppers
• A clutter of cats/starlings
• A colony of ants/beavers/gulls/penguins/rabbits
• A congress of baboons
• A cowardice of curs
• A crash of rhinos
• A cry of hounds
• A culture of bacteria
• A down of hares
• A doylt of swine
• A draught of fish
• A dray of squirrels
• A drift of pig/swine
• A drove of cattle
• An earth of foxes
• A family of otter
• A fesnyng of ferrets
• A field of racehorses
• A float of crocodiles
• A flock of geese/lice/sheep
• A fluther of jellyfish