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Collective Nouns for Animals Flashcards
Collective nouns for animals, each verified in two independent dictionaries, with the 15th-century terms of venery marked as the curiosities they are.
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- Geese on the ground
- A gaggle — geese not in flight.
- Geese or ducks in flight
- A skein — wildfowl on the wing.
- Lions
- A pride — related females, their young and a few adult males.
- Whales, dolphins or porpoises
- A pod — marine mammals travelling together.
- Fish swimming in unison
- A school — fish of one kind moving together.
- Fish keeping together socially
- A shoal — biology's general term; a school is a shoal that is polarised and swimming in unison.
- Wolves
- A pack — predators of one kind that hunt or run together.
- Cattle, deer or elephants
- A herd — large animals of one kind kept or grazing together.
- Sheep, goats or birds of one type
- A flock.
- Honeybees leaving a hive with a queen
- A swarm.
- Ants or termites
- A colony — a localised population of one species.
- Quail or partridge
- A covey — or a bevy; dictionaries enter both.
- Cats
- A clowder — an arcane word, not what English speakers actually say; 'a group of cats' is ordinary usage.
- Puppies born at one birth
- A litter — the offspring of a single birth.
- Chicks hatched at one time
- A brood — the young hatched or reared together.
- Eggs laid in one nest
- A clutch — the eggs; once hatched they are a brood.
- Cattle or sheep being driven along a road
- A drove.
- Starlings wheeling together in flight
- A murmuration.
- Locusts
- A plague — a destructive influx of a noxious animal.
- Camels travelling together across a desert
- A caravan.
- Oxen joined at the neck as a pair
- A yoke.
- Draught animals harnessed to one vehicle
- A team.
- Racehorses kept by one owner or stable
- A string.
- Female animals gathered round one breeding male
- A harem — used of polygamous animals such as seals and elk.
- Seals or penguins at their breeding ground
- A rookery — strictly the breeding place, not just the animals.
- Hounds kept and hunted together
- A kennel — the pack, as well as the building.
- Horses or mules driven as a matched pair
- A span.
- Game birds counted in twos by shooters
- A brace — two brace of partridge is four birds.
- Crows
- A murder — recorded from about 1475, in the Porkington manuscript; now a dictionary sense.
- Larks
- An exaltation — a flight of larks; chiefly British.
Collective Nouns for Animals flashcards — questions people ask
- How many cards are in the Collective Nouns for Animals flashcard deck?
- The Collective Nouns for Animals deck on PuzzlePage has 43 cards. The first 30 are free to play and free to download with no account; the remaining 13 unlock for $2.99 as a one-time payment, or with the $11.99-a-month Study Pack, which covers every deck on the site. 43 cards. There is no canonical list of collective nouns, so instead of padding this deck with the hundreds of names that circulate online, it is limited to terms that at least two independent dictionaries of record actually enter for that animal. Anything that could not be found in a dictionary was left out — see the notes.
- What is on the collective nouns for animals flashcards?
- Collective nouns for animals, each verified in two independent dictionaries, with the 15th-century terms of venery marked as the curiosities they are. Cards look like this: Geese on the ground → A gaggle — geese not in flight.; Geese or ducks in flight → A skein — wildfowl on the wing.. The deck is written for grades 4–12 and filed under english & reading.
- Can I study collective nouns for animals flashcards online for free?
- Yes. The first 30 cards of the Collective Nouns for Animals deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.
- Are the collective nouns for animals flashcards accurate?
- Every card in the Collective Nouns for Animals deck cites two independent published sources — two different organisations, not a standards body and a site reprinting it — and a script checks that, rather than taking the writer's word for it. A second specialist then re-verified the deck against sources of their own, without reading the citations first. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.
- Can I print the collective nouns for animals flashcards?
- Yes. The Collective Nouns for Animals cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The first 30 cards are free to download; the full 43-card printable is included in the $11.99-a-month Study Pack.
- How should I use the Collective Nouns for Animals deck to revise?
- Start in practice mode and go through the Collective Nouns for Animals deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.
- What grade level are the collective nouns for animals flashcards for?
- The Collective Nouns for Animals deck is written for grades 4–12. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising english & reading, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.
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