animal group

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

animal group - a group of animals                   biological group - a group of plants or animals team - two or more draft animals that work together to pull something brood - the young of an animal cared for at one time flock - a group of birds fold, flock - a group of sheep or goats fauna, zoology - all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" 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: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra pack - a group of hunting animals pod - a group of aquatic mammals pride - a group of lions clowder - a group of cats shoal, school - a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" caste - in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony colony - (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell warren - a colony of rabbits breed, strain, stock - a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new strain of sheep" drove - a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together litter - the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal