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The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites.
However, I would Support splitting the History section into a new article titled Collective nouns in English as proposed, but I would keep the list of collective nouns as a section on the same page and move Collective noun#Terms of venery (words for groups of animals) into the new article, as that section has further information not included ...
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing. [1] For example, the collective noun "group" can be applied to people ("a group of people"), or dogs ("a group of dogs"), or objects ("a group of stones").
Dewlap – the upper fold under the neck of a Merino sheep. Dipping – immersing sheep in a plunge or shower dip to kill external parasites. Backliners are now replacing dipping. Docking – removing the tail of a sheep to prevent fly-strike. See also crutching, dagging. Downs – breeds of sheep belonging to the short wool group.
Welsh has two systems of grammatical number, singular–plural and collective–singulative. Since the loss of the noun inflection system of earlier Celtic, plurals have become unpredictable and can be formed in several ways: by adding a suffix to the end of the word (most commonly -au), as in tad "father" and tadau "fathers", through vowel affection, as in bachgen "boy" and bechgyn "boys", or ...
Sheep wool (2 C, 11 P) ... Pages in category "Sheep" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Boy herding a flock of sheep, India; a classic example of the domestic herding of animals Wildebeest at the Ngorongoro Crater; an example of a herd in the wild. A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic. The form of collective animal behavior associated with this is called herding. These animals ...