bestiary

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bēstiārium, from Latin bēstia (“beast, animal”). By surface analysis, beast +‎ -ary.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbiːstiˌɛɹi/, /ˈbɛstiˌɛɹi/

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bestiary (plural bestiaries)

1. 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, […]

2. (gaming) A list or guidebook of the monsters to be found in a roleplaying game.

• beast
• bestial

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