A Crash of Rhinoceroses: A Dictionary of Collective Nouns

From A Crash of Rhinoceroses. A Multiplying of Husbands It was usually the men who had a multiplicity of spouses, for having worn out their wives through much childbearing they replacing them fairly quickly when a vacancy arose.. A Descension of Wodewales The wodewale is a green woodpecker or yaffle. It is not easy to accept that descension is a company term for a group of company of woodpeckers. Woodpeckers are essentially solitary birds never moving in flocks. Much more likely,the term may refer to the undulating flight of the bird...