There is a term for giving groups of animal names.

[W Brewer]

Lipton's Exaltation of Larks pops into my head. Cf. list of collective
nouns, list of collective nouns for birds, list of animal names,  in
wikipedia: It's trove of trivia. [[The other day a Canadian colleague
marvelled at the "motherload of chicken" in his noodles.]] Terms of venery
would be a subclass (hunting). -----Wab.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Dec 25, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Dan Nussbaum wrote:
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> > There is a term for giving groups of animal names, such as pride of
> lions and pod of whales. I forget what it is. Does anybody out there in
> cyberspace know what it is?
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> terms of venery
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> arnold
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