Collective Nouns

A collective noun is a word for a group of specific items, animals or people. For example, a group
of ships is called a fleet, a group of cows is called a herd, a groupd of lions is called a pride, a group
of baseball players is called a team, and a group of ants is called a colony.
Some Collective Nouns:

List of Collective Nouns by

Collective Noun
armada of ships
army of caterpillars, frogs, soldiers
bank of circuits
Batch of cookies
battery of tests
bed of clams, snakes
belt of asteroids
bevy of beauties
bouquet of flowers
brood of hens
bundle of nerves
bunch of grapes
caravan of camels
cete of badgers
chain of islands
clan of hyenas
class of students
cloud of gnats
clowder of cats
clutter of cats
clutch of chicks, eggs
company of actors
colony of ants, bats, beavers, lepers,
penguins
congregation of plovers, worshippers
corps of giraffes
coven of witches
crowd of onlookers
culture of bacteria
deck of cards
den of Cub Scouts, snakes, thieves
division of soldiers
drove of cattle
fleet of airplanes, ships
flock of birds, sheep
flight of swallows
flotilla of ships
forest of trees
gaggle of geese
galaxy of stars
herd of antelope, buffalo, cattle, deer, zebra
hive of bees

List of Collective Nouns by Noun

actors - company, troupe
airplanes - fleet
ants - colony, swarm
antelopes - herd
apes - troop, shrewdness
arrows - quiver
asteroids - belt
bacteria - culture
bats - colony
bears - sloth
beauties - bevy
beavers - colony, lodge
bees - hive, swarm
bills - wad
birds - dissimulation, flock, volery
boars - sounder
books - library
camels - caravan
candidates - slate
cards -deck
caterpillars - army
cattle - drove, herd, kine
cats - clowder, cluster, ponce
chicks - clutch
circuits - bank
cookies - batch
crows - murder
Cub Scouts - den, troop
dogs - pack
eggs - clutch
experts - panel
fish - school
flamingoes - stand
flowers - bouquet
geese - gaggle
giraffes - corps
gnats - cloud
goats - trip
grapes - bunch
hens - brood
hounds - cry, pack
hyenas - clan

host of sparrows
knot of toads
leap of leopards
library of books
litter of puppies, kittens
lodge of beavers
mob of kangaroos
murder of crows
nest of mice, snakes
orchard of trees
pack of dogs, hounds, wolves
panel of experts
parliament of owls
pit of snakes
platoon of soldiers
pod of whales
pride of lions, peacocks
quiver of arrows
range of mountains
school of fish
shrewdness of apes
slate of candidates
sloth of bears
sounder of boars, pigs
squad of players, soldiers
stand of flamingoes, trees
swarm of ants, bees, fkies
team of horses, oxen, players
thicket of trees
tribe of monkeys, natives
trip of goats
troop of apes, of Cub Scouts, kangaroos
troupe of actors, performers
unit of soldiers
wad of bills, money
wealth of information
yoke of oxen
Animal

information - wealth
islands - chain
kangaroos - mob, troop
kittens - litter
lawyers - murder
leopards - leap
lepers - colony
lions - pride
monkeys - tribe, troop
mountains - range
nerves - bundle
owls - parliament
oxen - team, yoke
puppies - litter
ships - armada, fleet, flotilla
snakes - bed, den, nest, pit
soldiers - army, brigade, company, division, platoon,
squad, unit
sparrows - host, flight
students - class
tests - battery
toads - knot
trees - forest, grove, orchard, stand, thicket
trucks - convoy
turkeys - rafter
vipers - nest
whales - pods
witches - coven
wolves - pack
worshippers - congregation
zebras - herd

Male

Female

Baby

Alligator

bull

cow

hatchling

Alpaca

male

female

cria

Group of
Animals
congregation,
pod (of
young)

herd

Antelope

buck

doe

calf

herd

Ape

male

female

baby

shrewdness

Armadillo

male

female

pup

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Baboon

male

female

infant

troop,
congress

Badger

boar

sow

kit, cub

cete

Bat

male

female

pup

colony

Bear

boar

sow

cub

sleuth, sloth

Beaver

pup, kitten

colony

Male

Female

Baby

drone

queen, worker

larva

Animal

Animal

Bee

Bird

cock

hen

Group of
Animals
hive, swarm
(in flight),
bike, drift,
grist

dissimulation
(small birds
only), fleet,
hatchling, chick
flight, flock,
parcel, pod,
volery

Bison, Buffalo

bull

cow

calf

Boar

boar

sow

piglet, shoat,
farrow

Male

Female

Baby

Animal

Butterfly

male

female

Camel

bull

cow

calf

flock

kitten

clutter,
clowder, litter
(young born
to one
female),
kindle
(kittens)

Cat

tomcat

queen

Cattle

bull

cow

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

male

female

cub

coalition

Cheetah

calf, dogie (a drift, drove,

motherless calf) herd, mob

flock, brood
chick, pullet
(of hens),
(young hen),
clutch (of
cockrell (young
chicks), peep
rooster)
(of chicks)

Chicken

rooster

hen

Clam

larva

bed

Cockroach

nymph

Male

Female

Baby

intrusion
Group of
Animals

codling, hake,
sprag, sprat

Animal
-

singular,
sounder
Group of
Animals
swarm, rabble
(group of
caterpillars is
an army)

caterpillar,
larva, pupa,
chrysalis

Animal

gang, herd,
obstinacy

Codfish

school

Coyote

dog

bitch

pup, whelp

pack, rout

Crane

chick

herd, sedge,
siege

Crow

cock

hen

chick

murder,
muster

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

buck,
stag

doe

fawn

herd, mob

cow

hatchling,
juvenile

herd (of
plant-eaters),
pack (of
meat-eaters)

Animal

Deer

Dinosaur

bull

Dog

dog

bitch

pup

litter (pups
from one
mother), pack
(wild), kennel

Dolphin

bull

cow

pup, calf

herd, pod,
school

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Donkey

jack,
jackass

jennet, jenny

colt, foal

drove, herd

Dove

cock

hen

squab, chick

dole, flight,
piteousness

Animal

Duck

drake

duck

duckling

badelynge,
brace, bunch,
flock,
paddling, raft,
team

Eagle

fledgling, eaglet

aerie,
convocation

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Eel

leptocephalus
(larva), elver
(juvenile)

swarm

Elephant

bull

cow

calf

herd, parade

Elk

bull

cow

calf

herd, gang

chick, hatchling

mob

Animal

Emu

Falcon

tercel,
terzel

falcon

chick

cast

Ferret

hob

jill

kit

business,
fesynes

Male

Female

Fish

Finch

cock

hen

Flamingo

Fly

maggot

cloud, swarm

Fox

reynard,
dog, dog
fox, or
tod

vixen

kit, cub, pup

skulk, leash

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Animal

Animal

Group of
Animals
draft, run,
fry, fingerling
school, shoal
chick
charm
colony,
flamboyance,
chick
flurry, stand,
regiment
Baby

tadpole,
polliwog,
froglet

Frog

army, knot

Gerbil

buck

doe

pup

horde

Giraffe

bull

doe

calf

herd, corps,
tower, group

Gnat

male

female

larva

cloud, horde

Gnu
Animal
Goat

cow

calf

herd

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

buck,
billy

doe, nanny

kid, billy

herd, tribe,
trip

Goose

gander

goose

gosling

flock, gaggle,
skein (only
while in
flight), wedge
(flying in a
"V"
formation)

Gorilla

male

female

infant

band

Grasshopper

male

female

nymph

swarm

Male

Female

Baby

Guinea pig

boar

sow

pup

group

Gull

cock

hen

chick

colony

Hamster

buck

doe

pup

horde

Hare

buck

doe

leveret

Male

Female

Baby

Hawk

tiercel

hen

eyas

aerie, cast,
kettle

Hedgehog

boar

sow

piglet, pup

array

Animal
-

bull

Grouse

Animal

Group of
Animals
covey

down, husk,
warren
Group of
Animals

Heron

cock

hen

chick

sedge, siege

Hippopotamus

bull

cow

calf

herd, bloat

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

male

female

larva

nest

Animal
Hornet

drove, herd,
litter (a group
shoat, farrow of young born
to one
mother)
stable, harras,
herd, team
foal, colt
(working
(male), filly
horses), string
(female)
or field (race
horses)

Hog

boar

sow

Horse

stallion,
stud

mare, dam

Hound

dog

bitch

pup

Male

Female

Baby

Human

man

woman

baby, infant,
toddler

Hummingbird

cock

hen

chick

charm

Hyena

male

female

cub

clan, cackle

Jay

cock

hen

chick

band, party

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

ephyna

smackm
bloom, swarm

Animal

Animal
Jellyfish

cry, mute,
pack
Group of
Animals
clan (related),
crowd, family
(closely
related),
community,
gang, mob,
tribe, etc.

Kangaroo

buck,
boomer,
jack

doe, flyer, jill,

roo

joey

troop, herd,
mob

Koala

male

female

joey

n/a

Lark

cock

hen

chick

Leopard

leopard

leopardess

cub

Male

Female

Baby

exaltation
leap, prowl
(some say it
should be a
spot of
leopards)
Group of
Animals

Lion

lion

lioness

cub

pride

Llama

cria

herd

Locust

host, swarm

Louse (plural
lice)

male

female

nymph

colony,
infestation,
lice

Animal

Magpie

cock

hen

chick

tiding, tribe,
charm, gulp,
flock, murder

Mallard

drake

duck

duckling

flush, sord

Male

Female

Baby

male

female

pup

Animal
-

Marten
Mole

Group of
Animals
richness
labor

Monkey

male

female

infant

troop,
cartload

Moose

bull

cow

calf

herd

Mosquito

male

female

Mouse

buck

doe

Mule

john

molly

foal

Male

Female

Baby

Nightingale

cock

hen

chick

watch

Opossum

jack

jill

joey

Ostrich

cock

hen

chick

flock

Otter

male

female

whelp, pup

family, raft,
romp

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Owl

owlet, fledgling

parliament

Ox

steer,
bull

cow

stot, calf

drove, herd,
yoke

Oyster

spat

bed

Animal

Animal

lnymph,
wriggler,
tumbler
pup, pinkie,
kitten

swarm
horde,
mischief
barren, pack,
span
Group of
Animals

Panda

boar

sow

cub

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Parrot

cock

hen

chick

company,
flock

Peafowl

peacock

peahen

peachick

muster,
ostentation

Penguin

male

female

chick

rookery

Animal

Pheasant

brood (a
family), nye
(a large
group)
Group of
Animals
drove, herd,
litter (of
pups),
sounder

cock

hen

chick

Male

Female

Baby

Pig

boar

sow

piglet, shoat,
farrow

Pigeon

cock

hen

squab, squeaker

flock, kit

Platypus

puggle

Porpoise

bull

cow

calf

herd, pod,
school

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

boar

sow

pup

coterie, town

Animal

Animal

Prairie dog

Pronghorn

buck

doe

fawn

herd

Quail

cock

hen

chick

bevy, covey,
drift

Rabbit

buck

doe

kitten, bunny,
kit

Male

Female

Baby

Raccoon

boar

sow

cub

nursery, gaze

Rat

buck

doe

pup, pinkie,
kitten

Raven

horde,
mischief
congress,
unkindness

Reindeer

bull

cow

calf

herd

Rhinoceros

bull

cow

calf

crash

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Animal

Animal

colony, drove,
leash, nest,
trace, warren
Group of
Animals

Sand Dollar

male

female

larva, pluteus
(free-swimming
stage), juvenile
(young urchin)

Seal

bull

cow

pup

herd, pod,
rookery,
harem

female

larva, pluteus
(free-swimming
stage), juvenile
(young urchin)

Seastar

male

Sea Urchin

male

female

larva, pluteus
(free-swimming
stage), juvenile
(young urchin)

Serval

male

female

kitten

Shark

bull

female

pup

school, shiver

Sheep

buck,
ram

ewe, dam

lamb, lambkin,
cosset

Male

Female

Baby

kit

Animal
Skunk

male

female

snipe
sparrow

Spider

male

female

Squid

male

female

Squirrel

buck

doe

pup, kit, kitten

Swallow

Swan

cob

pen

Male

Female

male

female

Termite

drift, drove,
flock,herd,
mob, trip
Group of
Animals
surfeit

Snakelet,
neonate (a
newly-born
snake),
bed, nest, pit
hatchling (a
newly-hatched
snake)
wisp
host

Snake

Animal

spiderling

hatchling,
shoal, squad
paralarva, larva
dray

flight
bevy, game,
herd, team,
cygnet, flapper wedge (flying
in a "V"
formation)
Group of
Baby
Animals
larva
swarm (while
flying),

colony
ambush,
streak

Tiger

tiger

tigress

cub, whelp

Toad

male

female

tadpole

knot

fingerling

hoover

Trout
tom or
gobbler
(adult
male),
jake
(juvenile
male)

hen

poult

rafter

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Turtle

male

female

hatchling

bale

Wallaby

jack

jill

joey

mob

Walrus

bull

cow

cub, pup

herd, pod

queen
(reproducing
drone female), worker
(non-reproducing
female)

larva

colony

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

dog,
buck,
Jack,
hob

bitch, doe, Jill

kit

gang

Turkey

Animal

Wasp

Animal

Weasel

Whale

bull

cow

calf

gam, grind,
herd, pod,
school

Wolf

dog

bitch

pup, whelp

pack, rout

Wombat

jack

jill

joey

mob

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Woodpecker

male

female

chick

descent

Wren

cock

jenny

chick

flock, herd

Yak

bull

cow

calf

herd

Yellow Jacket

drone

queen (egglaying female),

worker (nonreproducing
female)

larva

colony

Zebra

stallion

mare

colt, foal

herd, crossing

Male

Female

Baby

Group of
Animals

Animal

Animal
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Match Animals and Their Babies

Match Farm Animals to their

Babies

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the answers.
foal, duck, duckling, goat, kid, chicken,
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