collective noun

collective noun
a noun that denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit. For ichthyology these include:
army - herrings
battery - barracuda
bed - eels
bind - eels
bind - salmon
brood - dogfish
cast - fish
catch - fish
cluster - porcupinefish
company - archer fish
cran - fish
draft - eels
draught - fish
draught - salmon
drift - fish
drought - fish
elongation - anglers
exaggeration - fishermen
family - sardines
fleet - bass
float - tunas
flote - fish
flotilla - swordfish
flutter - fish
fray - fish
fry - eels
glean - herrings
glide - flying fish
glint - goldfish (coined)
grind - blackfish
haul - fish
herd - seahorses
host - angelfish
hover - trout
knot - eels
lap - cod
leap - salmon
leash - trout
nest - fishes
pack - perch
party - rainbowfish
pod - billfish
pod - sailfish
pod - whiting
quantity - smelt
release - anglers (coined as a joke)
run - fish
run - salmon
scale - fish
scale - ichthyologists (coined as a joke)
scholl - fish
school - butterflyfish
school - salmon
school - sharks
shiver - sharks
shoal - barbels
shoal - fish
shoal - herrings
shoal - mackerel
shoal - minnows
shoal - perch
shoal - pilchards
shoal - roach
shoal - salmon
shoal - shad
shoal - sharks
shoal - sticklebacks
shoal - trout
spread - sticklebacks
steam - minnows
stream - minnows
swarm - dragonets
swarm - eels
swarm - minnows
take - fish
throw - fish
troop - dogfish
troop - tunas
troubling - goldfish
troup - trout
troup - tunas
warp - fish
wisp - eels

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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