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collective noun chimpanzee

"troop"
"harem"
"group"
"cartload"
What is the collective noun (the word for a group, such as "herd") for the class Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, a common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan where the Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species: *Common Chimpanzee?
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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 ...
This is a list of Standard English collective nouns. The large number of collective nouns in English is based on a tradition of venery which arose in the Late Middle Ages.
Canadian Mind Products Java & Internet Glossary : collective nouns ... chimpanzee: cartload: chinchilla: colony: clam: bed: flaccidity: clause: insanity: cobra: quiver
What is the collective noun for chimpanzees? The collective noun is cartload - a cartload of chimpanzees. Can a common noun be a collective noun?
See also: List of collective nouns ... Chimpanzee: infant: empress: blackback: troop, group, harem: panine: Chinchilla: tureturle, kit

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