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bestiary

[ bes-chee-er-ee, bees- ]

noun

plural bestiaries.
  1. a collection of moralized fables, especially as written in the Middle Ages, about actual or mythical animals.


bestiary

/ ˈ²úÉ›²õ³Ùɪə°ùɪ /

noun

  1. a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²ú±ð²õ·³Ù¾±Â·²¹Â·°ù¾±²õ³Ù [bes, -chee-er-ist, -cher-, bees, -], noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bestiary1

1615–25; < Medieval Latin ²úŧ²õ³Ù¾±Äå°ù¾±³Ü³¾, neuter of Latin ²úŧ²õ³Ù¾±Äå°ù¾±³Ü²õ. See beast, -ary
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Her bestiary, inevitably, is also a catalog of human greed, ego, and neglect.

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Such animals were found in bestiaries, which were illustrated books offering the most popular sources of information about animals, real or imaginary, during the Middle Ages.

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The bestiary of acceptable species on which respectable researchers can experiment is expanding.

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With terrifying beasts like the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer, Stranger Things has slowly been building up an impressive bestiary of monsters.

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Neutrinos are, without question, the weirdest denizens of the vast and varied particle-physics bestiary: They come in three types, but somehow oscillate between these different forms as they travel.

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