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bestiary

Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

bestiary(n = noun.communication) - a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals;

bestiary, n. [LL. bestiarium, fr. L. bestiarius pert. to beasts, fr. bestia beast: cf. F. bestiaire.].

A treatise on beasts; esp., one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages. [1913 Webster]

"A bestiary . . . in itself one of the numerous mediæval renderings of the fantastic mystical zoölogy." [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

bestiary, n. (pl. -ies) a moralizing medieval treatise on real and imaginary beasts.

Etymology

med.L bestiarium f. L bestia beast