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Nouns of assemblage

Birds (a)

  • a murmuration of starlings
  • a desert of lapwing
  • a parliament of owls
  • a gulp of cormorants
  • a pitying of doves
  • a murder of crows
  • an exaltation of larks
  • a charm of finches
  • a stand of flamingoes
  • a watch of nightingales
  • a rafter of turkeys
  • a committee of vultures
  • a descent of woodpeckers
  • an unkindness of ravens
  • a convocation of eagles
  • a siege of cranes

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Other animals (b)

  • a business of ferrets
  • a cartload of chimpanzees
  • a coalition of cheetahs
  • a congress of baboons
  • a gang of elk
  • a huddle of penguins
  • a kaleidoscope of butterflies
  • a labour of moles
  • a prickle of porcupines
  • a quarrel of sparrows
  • a romp of otters
  • a tiding of magpies
  • a tower of giraffes
  • a ubiquity of sparrows
  • a whiteness of swans
  • a zeal of zebras
  • a sleuth of bears
  • a shrewdness of apes
  • a flutter of butterflies
  • an intrusion of cockroaches
  • a bask of crocodiles
  • a skulk of foxes
  • a smack of jellyfish
  • a leap of leopards
  • a crash of rhinoceroses
  • a scurry of squirrels
  • a streak of tigers
  • a shiver of sharks

(a) From Futility Closet

(b) From Futility Closet

posted 30 Dec 2007 in Bookshelf