bestiary

IPA: bɛstʃɝi

Examples of "bestiary" in Sentences

So I wound up calling it a bestiary, which is just a book in which animals do things that people do.
Ross: A bestiary is a "book of beasts," a collection of stories giving allegorical descriptions of animal behavior.
This bestiary is included in the second section of 45 Mercy Street, first published in 1976, two years after Sexton’s suicide.
And according to Medieval Folklore, an early Syrian [bestiary] is quite explicit: The unicorn approaches the virgin, 'throwing himself upon her.
"The bestiary really was the key element of the manuscript that intrigued me the most, not just because it has all these unpublished texts that are scholarly, but a bestiary is a book that is concerned with the symbolic meanings of animals," Gwara said.