a cloud of bats
- Subject
- bat (bats)
- Category
- Animals → Mammals
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
Collective noun
cloud
What do you call a group of bats, flies, gnats or 3 others?
- Used for
- 6 subjects
- Categories
- Animals
- Subcategories
- Insects & arachnids, Mammals
- Type
- Generic
- Best confidence
- high
Definition
A collective noun for bats, flies, gnats, grasshoppers, locusts, mosquitoes. No dictionary definition recorded.
Other senses of the word: cloud on Wiktionary
Usage as a collective noun
a cloud of flies
- Subject
- fly (flies)
- Category
- Animals → Insects & arachnids
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
a cloud of gnats
- Subject
- gnat (gnats)
- Category
- Animals → Insects & arachnids
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
a cloud of grasshoppers
- Subject
- grasshopper (grasshoppers)
- Category
- Animals → Insects & arachnids
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- wikipedia-cited
a cloud of locusts
- Subject
- locust (locusts)
- Category
- Animals → Insects & arachnids
- Confidence
- low
- Attestation
- wikipedia-uncited
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a cloud of mosquitoes
- Subject
- mosquito (mosquitoes)
- Category
- Animals → Insects & arachnids
- Confidence
- low
- Attestation
- wikipedia-uncited