bestiary
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin bēstiārium, from Latin bēstia (“beast, animal”) (whence English beast).
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Noun edit
bestiary (plural bestiaries)
- A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals.
- 1982, George Plimpton, A Sports Bestiary, McGraw-Hill Companies, →ISBN:
- This book is not actually a bestiary. It is what most people think a bestiary is—namely an assemblage of vividly imagined beasts who behave somewhat quirkily, bear only the vaguest application to real life, […]
- (gaming) A list or guidebook of the monsters to be found in a roleplaying game.
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A medieval treatise of animals
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