| NOUN | group | animal group | a group of animals |
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| Meaning | A group of animals. | |
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| Member of | fauna, zoology | All the animal life in a particular region or period |
| Narrower | breed, strain, stock | A special variety of domesticated animals within a species |
| brood | The young of an animal cared for at one time | |
| caste | In some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony | |
| clowder | A group of cats | |
| colony | (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | |
| drove | A group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together | |
| flock | A group of birds | |
| flock, fold | A group of sheep or goats | |
| herd | A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans | |
| herd | A group of wild mammals of one species that remain together | |
| litter | The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal | |
| pack | A group of hunting animals | |
| pod | A group of aquatic mammals | |
| pride | A group of lions | |
| school, shoal | A large group of fish | |
| team | Two or more draft animals that work together to pull something | |
| warren | A colony of rabbits | |
| Broader | biological group | A group of plants or animals |
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