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butterfly collective nouns

"swarm"

"rabble"

"flutter"

"flight"

Who or what is currently the collective noun (the word for a group, such as "herd") for the class butterfly, any of several groups of mainly day-flying insects of the order Lepidoptera, a butterflies and moths?

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Canadian Mind Products Java & Internet Glossary : collective nouns ... butterfly: flight: flutter: rabble: swarm: buzzard: flock: wake: camel: caravan: flock: herd: train

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Collective Nouns

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Collective noun for butterflies - Wild About Britain

... the right place to ask this, but I was asked this earlier today, what is the collective noun ... Or tweeked slightly: a flutterby of butterfly On a serious(er) note I've called it ...

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List of collective nouns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of collective nouns which can be sorted by subject or collective term. Collective nouns are words used to define a group of objects.

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Fun With Words: Collective Nouns

One of the craziest oddities of the English language is that there are so many different collective nouns that all mean "group" but which are specific to what particular thing ...

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