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Dictionary Results for Bestiary:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
bestiary
    n 1: a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and
         amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bestiary \Bes"ti*a*ry\, 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
         medi[ae]val renderings of the fantastic mystical
         Zoology.                                 --Saintsbury.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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