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ANIMAL GROUP

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ANIMAL GROUP (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL GROUP has 1 sense:

1. a group of animals

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL GROUP used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ANIMAL GROUP (noun)


Sense 1animal group [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A group of animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("animal group" is a kind of...):

biological group (a group of plants or animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animal group"):

team (two or more draft animals that work together to pull something)

drove (a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together)

breed; stock; strain (a special variety of domesticated animals within a species)

warren (a colony of rabbits)

cloud; swarm (a group of many insects)

colony ((microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell)

colony (a group of animals of the same type living together)

school; shoal (a large group of fish)

clowder (a group of cats)

pride (a group of lions)

pod (a group of aquatic mammals)

pack (a group of hunting animals)

herd (a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra)

herd (a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans)

flock; fold (a group of sheep or goats)

flock (a group of birds)

brood (the young of an animal cared for at one time)

litter (the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal)

Holonyms ("animal group" is a member of...):

fauna; zoology (all the animal life in a particular region or period)


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