What is a group of bats called?

Collective Noun for Bats. The collective noun for bats is the word you would use to describe a group of bats.

We have identified the following word(s) that you could call a group of bats:

cauldron
cloud
colony

Used in a sentence, you could say "Look at the cauldron of bats", where "cauldron" is the collective noun that means group.

As you can see, you simply substitute the word "group" with one of the collective nouns on our list above when describing a group of bats.

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