To find out the werewolf's weakness, look up his entry in the Bestiary.
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Bestiary
//ˈbiːstiˌɛɹi//
Synonyms for "bestiary"
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Translations
33 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- حيوانات رامزة noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Basque
1 entries- bestiario noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Belarusian
1 entries- бестыярыюм noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Bulgarian
1 entries- бестиарий noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Catalan
1 entries- bestiari noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Czech
1 entries- bestiář noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Danish
1 entries- bestiarium noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Dutch
1 entries- bestiarium noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Esperanto
1 entries- bestarlibro noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Finnish
2 entries- bestiaari noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
- eläinkirja noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
French
1 entries- bestiaire noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
German
1 entries- Bestiarium noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Hebrew
2 entries- בסטיארי noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
- ספר חיות noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Ido
1 entries- bestiario noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Italian
1 entries- bestiario noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Japanese
1 entries- 動物寓意譚 noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Korean
1 entries- 베스티아리 noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Latin
1 entries- bēstiārium noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Macedonian
1 entries- бестија́р noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Norwegian
1 entries- bestiarium noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Polish
2 entries- bestiarium noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
- bestiariusz noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Portuguese
1 entries- bestiário noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Romanian
1 entries- bestiar noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Russian
1 entries- бестиа́рий noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Slovene
1 entries- bestiarij noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Spanish
1 entries- bestiario noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Swedish
1 entries- bestiarium noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Ukrainian
1 entries- бестіа́рій noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Welsh
2 entries- bwystawr noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
- bwystori noun (A medieval treatise of animals)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Back in the 60s, Robin Boyd told us how ugly Australian architecture was. As his valediction, he has left us a bestiary of ugly Australians.
Source: wiktionary
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, […]
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More commonly known to the English speaker as “Genie”; the “dijn” is a powerful demon in the bestiary of the Middle East, mistaken in this instance for the Buddha.
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