急!! 求以下vocab 既 collective noun

Whales and bananas - specific collective noun

1. A pod of whales is a collective noun, and a collection of whales is also called a herd . Other collective nouns used to describe whales include troup, mob, run, float, gam and shoal.
(A gam of whales is a group of whales that is not related via family. When a group is family-related, it is referred to as a pod.)

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A hand of bananas is a collective noun. Other collective nouns used to describe bananas include cluster, bunch and stem.
(The banana fruit grow in hanging clusters, with up to 20 fruit to a tier (called a hand), and 3-20 tiers to a bunch. The total of the hanging clusters is known as a bunch, or commercially as a "banana stem", and can weigh from 30–50 kg. Each individual fruit is known as a banana or 'finger'.)

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A hand of bananas
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2013-07-19 17:16:29 補充：
School是魚的一般用collective noun，pod是較常用於whales, dolphins哺乳類游水動物的collective noun。
Bunch可用於一般水果例如grapes, blueberries，hand是專用於bananas的。

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm
有其他集體名詞。

has many other collective nouns,
e.g. a school (float/gam/herd/mob/pod/run/shoal/troupe) of whales.
e.g. a bunch/hand of bananas.

A school of whales
http://answers.ask.com/Science/Biology/what_is_a_school_of_whales_called

A bunch of bananas
http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-bunch-of-bananas