BESTIARY
bestiary
(noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bestiary (plural bestiaries)
A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals.
Anagrams
• Sybarite, sybarite
Source: Wiktionary
Bes"ti*a*ry, n. [LL. bestiarium, fr. L. bestiarius pert. to beasts, fr. bestia beast: cf. F. bestiaire.]
Definition: A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages.
A bestiary . . . in itself one of the numerous mediæval renderings of the fantastic mystical zoölogy. Saintsbury.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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