bestiary
/ˈbɛstɪəri
/noun (plural bestiaries)
A descriptive or anecdotal treatise on various kinds of animal, especially a medieval work with a moralizing tone.They typically demand some bizarre chimera: a part goat, part rooster sort of monster appropriate to a medieval bestiary or science fiction....
- Reminded me of reading in a medieval bestiary how lions would rescue people, and feeling rather superior as I read it.
- Long-faced, often sporting four horns, it resembles a creature in a medieval bestiary.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from medieval Latin bestiarium, from Latin bestia 'beast'.
Rhymes
- one's gorge rises
- one's head is a marley
- one's head swells
- one's heart goes out to
- one's heart's desire
- one's heart sinks
- one-shot
- one-shotter
- one's humble abode
- one-sided
- one-sidedly
- one-sidedness
- onesie
- one-size-fits-all
- one's jaw drops
- one's life's work
- one's line of country
- one's luck is in
- one's mark
- one's money's worth
- one's name is mud
- one's nearest and dearest
- one's (or the) last gasp
- one's (own) flesh and blood
- one's (own) kind