Subject · Animals → Insects & arachnids
Gnats
A group of gnats can be called: cloud · horde · rabble · swarm
- Collective nouns
- 4
- Category
- Animals
- Subcategory
- Insects & arachnids
- High confidence
- 4
- Book of St Albans
- 0
Collective nouns for gnats
a cloud of gnats
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- bats, flies, grasshoppers, locusts, mosquitoes
4 sources
- Wikipedia - List of animal names
- Zoological Society of San Diego - Animal group names
- U.S. Geological Survey Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - Common Questions: What Do You Call a Group of...?
- Oxford University Press - AskOxford: G
a horde of gnats
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- gerbils, hamsters, humans, rats
4 sources
- Wikipedia - List of animal names
- Zoological Society of San Diego - Animal group names
- U.S. Geological Survey Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - Common Questions: What Do You Call a Group of...?
- Oxford University Press - AskOxford: G
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- bees, butterflies
2 sources
- Wikipedia - List of animal names
- Oxford University Press - AskOxford: G
a swarm of gnats
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- ants, bees, beetles, bugs, butterflies, eels, flies, grasshoppers, moths, hornets +5 more
- Also spelled
- Swarme (1486)
3 sources
- Wikipedia - List of animal names
- Zoological Society of San Diego - Animal group names
- Oxford University Press - AskOxford: G