Animal

Young

Female

Male

Group

Adjective

Meat

African buffalo Alligator American Bison (Buffalo)

calf

hatchling

cow

bull

bask, congregation[2]

calf

cow

bull

herd

bovine, bubaline

Ant

queen, larva, pupa worker, gyne Anteaterlin g

drone

army, colony, nest, swarm, byke

formic, myrmecine

Anteater

Cow

Bull

Lick

Antelope

calf

doe

buck

herd, cluster

alcelaphine, bubaline, antilopine simian

Ape

infant

[3]

[3]

shrewdness, troop pace, band, drove, herd, coffle troop, tribe, flange[4], congress[citation needed] cete, colony, sett, company colony, cloud, cauldron sleuth, sloth

Ass/Donkey

foal

jenny

jack

asinine

Baboon

infant

[3]

Badger

kit

sow

boar

musteline

Bat

pup

[3]

[3]

pteropine, noctillionine ursine

Bear

cub

sow

boar

Beaver

kit, kitten, pup

[3]

[3]

family, colony

Bee

larva, pupa

queen, drone worker [5]

grist, hive, swarm, colony

apic, apian, apiarian avian, muscicapine, oscine, passerine, pendeline, volucrine, ornithic

Bird

chick

hen

cock [6]

flock

Bison

calf

cow

bull

herd, troop rabble, flight, flutter, swarm

Butterfly

caterpillar

Buzzard Camel

chick calf

hen cow

cock[6] bull

wake flock clowder, cluster[4], clutter, glaring[4], pounce, kindle (young) camelid

Cat

kitten

queen

tom [7]

feline

Cattle[8]

calf

cow

bull

bovine[9], vituline herd, drift[4], drove, (young), beef, veal mob vaccine (female), taurine (male) herd coalition

Chamois Cheetah

calf cub

doe

bull

Chicken

chick

hen, pullet

rooster, cock(flock, brood, peep erel)[6][1

0]

galline

chicken[11 ] , poultry

Cobra Cockroach Cormorant cub, pup, whelp

[3]

quiver[12] nymph intrusion[12] gulp[12], flight

elapid

Coyote

bitch[6]

dog

pack, train

Crab Crane

[3]

consortium herd, sedge, siege bask, nest, congregation, float hover, murder, parcel[4] alectorine

Crocodile

hatchling

cow

bull

crocodilian

Crow

corvine

Deer

fawn

buck, stag, doe, hind, bull, herd, mob, rangale[4] cow hart (red deer) stud, sire pack, litter (young), kennel, gang, legion troop[4] team, school, pod, herd, team[4], alliance (male), party

cervine, elaphine

venison, humble (organ meat)

Dog

whelp, pup, bitch[6], puppy dam

canine

dog meat

Dogfish

Dolphin

calf, pup

cow

bull

delphine

(female) Donkey/Ass[
6]

foal

jenny

jack

pace, band, drove, herd, coffle cote, flight, dole, dule, piteousness,[4] troop flock, brace, bunch (on water)[4], team[13] convocation, brood, aerie

asinine

Dove

chick

columbine

Duck

duckling

duck, hen drake

anatine, fuliguline

poultry

Eagle

eaglet

[3]

[3]

aquiline

Echidna Eel Eland Elephant Elephant seal Elk (wapiti) Falcon Ferret

puggle elver calf calf calf calf eyass/eyas kit cow falcon jill bull tiercel hob [14] gang, herd gross business charm, chirm, trembling, trimming cervine acciptrine musteline venison cow bull herd, flock, parade elephantine
[3] [3]

swarm, cell, pipe

Finch

chick

hen

cock[6]

fringilline

Fish

fry, fingerling

school, shoal

piscine, ichthyic

Flamingo

hen

cock[6]

stand

phoenicopteri ne

Fox

cub, kit, pup

vixen

reynard, todd, dog

leash, skulk

vulpine

Frog

polliwog, tadpole, froglet calf pup panda doe cub buck

bundle

ranine

Gazelle Gerbil Giant Panda

horde

cricetine

Giraffe

calf

cow

bull

herd, journey, stretch, tower

giraffine

Gnu

calf doe, nanny hen buck[15], billy cock[6] gaggle (skein when in flight)[13] troop, group (band), flange caprine, hircine fringilline anatine, anserine

Goat

kid

herd, mob, tribe

chevon

Goldfinch

chick

Goose

gosling

goose

gander

poultry

Gorilla

infant

[3]

[3]

simian

Guanaco Guinea pig

chulengo pup sow boar herd

camelid

Gull

chick, scorrie[16] pup

hen

cock[6]

flock

larine

Hamster

doe

buck buck, jack

horde

cricetine leverine, leporine accipitrine, falconine

Hare

leveret

doe, jill

band, down

Hawk

eyas

hen

tiercel

cast, kettle, boil[17]

Heron Hippopotam us Hog

chick

hen

cock[6]

siege[13] bloat, crash, herd, thunder[12] drift, herd hippopotamin e suilline pork

calf

cow

bull

sow larvae, pupae foal, colt (male), filly (female)

boar

Hornet

queen

drone

swarm

vespine

Horse

[18]

mare

stallion

herd, harass

equine

horse meat

Human

child,girl,bo woman y

man

people,crowd,clan,tri be charm, chattering, drum, hover, troubling

human

long-pig

Hummingbir d

hen

cock

[6]

trochiline

Hyena

cub, pup, whelp pup

bitch[6]

dog

clan, cackle

hyenine

Jackal

pack

Jaguar

cub garruline, passerine

Jay

chick

hen

cock[6]

band, party

Jellyfish

ephyra

smack, bloom, brood, smuth, smuck, fluther boomer, buck

Kangaroo

joey

flyer, doe

mob, troop, court

macropodine

Kudu Lark

calf chick hen cock[6] exaltation alaudine

Leopard

cub

leopardes leopard s lioness hembra hen lion macho cock[6]

leap, lepe

pardine

Lion Llama Lobster

cub cria

pride herd, flock risk colony, infestation, lice tiding, tittering, gulp, murder, charm, flock sord, lute, brace, puddling, flush

leonine camelid homarine

Louse

nymph

[3]

[3]

pediculine

Magpie

hen

cock[6]

garruline

Mallard

duckling

hen

drake

anatine

poultry

Manatee

calf

cow

bull

herd

manatine, sirenian

Mink

cub, kit

sow

boar labour,company, movement troop, barrel, tribe, cartload

musteline

Mole

pup

[3]

[3]

talpine

Monkey

infant

[3]

[3]

simian

Moose

calf nymph, wriggler, tumbler pinkie, kitten, pup

cow

bull

cervine

venison

Mosquito

[3]

[3]

scourge, swarm

aedine, anopheline

Mouse

doe

buck

nest, colony, harvest, horde, mischief barren, pack, span, rake watch, flock, route, match

murine

Mule

foal

jennet, jenny

jack

Nightingale

chick

hen

cock[6]

philomelian

Oryx

calf ratite, struthious musteline, lutrine ostrich meat

Ostrich

chick

hen

cock[6]

flock, troop

Otter

pup, whelp

[3]

[3]

romp, bevy, lodge, family, raft parliament, stare, wisdom yoke, team, drove, herd, nye

Owl

owlet

strigine

Ox

calf

cow

bull

bovine

Oyster pantheres s [19]

bed, hive, cast, culch

ostracine

Panther

cub

pantherine

Parrot

chick

hen

cock[6]

company, flock, prattle, pandemonium

psittacine

Partridge

chick, cheeper chick, peachick chick, nestling

hen, cock[6] chantelle

covey

perdicine

Peafowl

peahen peacock

party, muster, ostentation, pride

pavonine

poultry

Pelican

hen

cock[6]

scoop, pod[2]

Penguin

chick

hen

cock

[6]

colony, rookery, parade, parcel, crche, huddle bouquet, nest, nide, nye, brood, covey

spheniscine

Pheasant

chick

hen

cock[6]

alectorine, phasianine

poultry

Pig

[20]

piglet, shoat/shote (a young, just weaned pig) gilt (female) squab foal (either sex), colt (young, immature male), filly (young, immature

sow

boar

herd, drove, mob

porcine, suilline

pork, ham, bacon

Pigeon

hen

cock[6] flight, loft, flock, kit

pullastrine

squab

Pony

mare

stallion

herd, marmalade, string

equine

female) pup, porcupet chick bunny, kit, kitten, leveret, nestling cub, kit chick

Porcupine

sow

boar

prickle

Quail

hen

cock[6]

covey

coturnine

Rabbit

doe, jill

buck, jack

warren, nest, colony, bevy, bury, drove, trace

leporine

lapin, lapan

Raccoon Rail

sow reeve

boar ruff

nursery

procyonine ralline lamb and mutton

Ram

lamb

ewe

ram

flock

arietine, ovine

Rat

kitten, nestling, pinkie, pup

doe

buck

colony, horde, mischief, pack, plague, swarm unkindness[1], congress, conspiracy, parliament, murder, storytelling, nevermore herd

murine

Raven

chick

hen

cock[6]

corvine

Red deer Reindeer (caribou) Rhinoceros Rook

calf

doe

bull

venison

calf

cow

bull

herd

calf chick

cow hen

bull

crash, herd

cock[6] building, parliament

Sea lion

pup, beach weaner, calf

cow

bull

pod, colony, crash, flock, harem, bob, herd, rookery, team, hurdle
[3]

otarine

Seastar Pinniped(seal , walrus, etc.) Shark

[3]

[3]

[3]

pup

cow

bull

same as sea lion

phocine, otarine

pup

[3]

bull

slew, shiver[12] lamb, mutton, hoggett, haggis (visceral meat) escargot

Sheep

lamb

ewe

ram[15]

drove, mob, flock, herd

ovine

Snail snakelet, hatchling (a newlyhatched snake) chick anguine, elapine, serpentine, viperine, ophidian charadrine

Snake

[3]

[3]

pit, nest or bed

Snipe

hen

cock[6]

walk, wisp flight, host, quarrel, tribe, ubiquity

Sparrow

chick

hen

cock[6]

passerine

Spider

spiderling

cluster, clutter

arachnine, arachnoid

Squirrel

pup, kit, kitten Spit

doe

buck

squad, dray, scurry[12] flight

sciurine

Swallow

hen

cock[6]

hirundine

Swan

cygnet, flapper cub tadpole, toadlet hatchling

pen

cob

flock

cygnine

Tiger

tigress

tiger

streak[12]

tigrine ranine, batrachian chelonian

Toad

[3]

[3]

knot, lump

Turtle Water buffalo

[3]

[3]

bale, dule

calf

cow

bull

carabeef

Weasel

bitch[6], doe, jill

buck, dog, hub, jack

sneak, gang[21]

musteline

Whale

calf

cow

bull

gam, pod, herd, school flock

cetacean, cetaceous poultry

Wildfowl

chick cub, pup, whelp

hen bitch[6], fae

cock[6] dog, brute

Wolf

pack, rout

lupine

Worm

wormlet

bed, bunch, clew, squirm cow bull herd

helminthic, vermian

Yak

calf

Zebra

foal

mare

stallion

dazzle, herd

zebrine, hippotigrine

List of collective nouns for people Redirected from Collective nouns for people Also see Collective noun SUBJECT academics[?] accountants actors actors anatomists arsonists[?] athletes automobile dealers pipers barbers barons beauties bookkeepers[?] bureaucrats[?] bureaucrats[?] cardiologists starlets cobblers courtiers critics doctors pupils employees[?] engineers secret agents experts fishermen friars[?] mourners geologists girls goths grandparents[?] hackers harpers[?] hoodlums[?] horsemen husbands idiots jugglers knights knights ladies[?] lawyers lepers librarians men mathematicians mathematicians matrons[?] mechanics[?] COLLECTIVE TERM A faculty of academics A balance of accountants A cast of actors A company of actors A corps of anatomists A conflagration of arsonists A team of athletes A lot of automobile dealers A poverty of pipers A babble of barbers A thought of barons A bevy of beauties An audit of bookkeepers A bloat of bureaucrats A shuffle of bureaucrats A flutter of cardiologists A galaxy of starlets A drunken ship of cobblers A threatening of courtiers A pan of critics A doctrine of doctors A dilation of pupils A staff of employees A geek of engineers A bond of secret agents A panel of experts An exaggeration of fishermen A scull of friars A cortege of mourners A conglomerate of geologists A giggle of girls A pretense of goths A wisdom of grandparents A cruft of hackers A melody of harpers A gang of hoodlums A cavalcade of horsemen A multiply of husbands A thicket of idiots A neverthriving of jugglers A banner of knights A rout of knights A bevy of ladies A huddle of lawyers A colony of lepers A catalogue of librarians A band of men A number of mathematicians A set of mathematicians A riches of matrons A clutch of mechanics STATUS Uncertain Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious Spurious

meteorologists misers[?] monks natives[?] nudists nuns onlookers[?] orthodontists[?] painters pathologists performers[?] philosophers physicists theoretical physicists plumbers preachers prelates princes programmers harlots prostitutes psychoanalysts relatives[?] scots senators servants sailors soldiers soldiers soldiers soldiers soldiers stockbrokers[?] strumpets[?] students tailors[?] thieves toddlers tourists tree surgeons[?] troops tubas (players) vicaries (vicars) waiters[?] widows witches women worshipers[?] yeomen

A shower of meteorologists A horde of misers A tribe of natives A hangout of nudists A superfluity of nuns A crowd of onlookers A brace of orthodontists An illusion of painters A body of pathologists A troupe of performers A ponder of philosophers A nucleus of physicists A field of theoretical physicists A flush of plumbers A converting of preachers A pontifica of prelates A state of princes An asylum of programmers A heard of harlots A complex of psychoanalysts A descent of relatives A disworship of scots A house of senators An obesiance of servants A crew of sailors A brigade of soldiers A company of soldiers A division of soldiers A platoon of soldiers A squad of soldiers A portfolio of stockbrokers A blast of strumpets A class of students A disguising of tailors A den of thieves A mine of toddlers A flock of tourists A graft of tree surgeons A parel of troops A tumult of tubas (players) A prudence of vicaries (vicars) An indifference of waiters An ambush of widows A coven of witches A gaggle of women A congregation of worshipers A fellowship of yeomen

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