asher63 (asher63) wrote,
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Irregular Animal Words

It's interesting how widespread among languages it is to have completely different names for, for example: (1) the male and female of a species; (2) the young and mature; (3) wild and domesticated (or eaten as food); and (4) names for a group of an animal (terms of venery).
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