A term of venery is a specific type of collective noun: more or less, collective nouns for animals made up by bored aristocrats in the middle ages (or more rece

A term of venery is a specific type of collective noun: more or less, collective nouns for animals made up by bored aristocrats in the middle ages (or more recently, but in the same tradition). As a result, most are never used in conversation by people who actually work with those animals.