There is a term for giving groups of animal names.

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 25, 2011, at 1:04 PM, W Brewer wrote:

> 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.

Well, there's venery and then there's venery.  Maybe collective terms of the latter kind would be particularly designed for the polyamorous set.

LH
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> 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?
>>
>> terms of venery
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>> arnold
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