bestiary

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Designer Virginie Viard collaborated again with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Naked mole-rats and blind mole-rats are now safely within the research bestiary.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2022

With terrifying beasts like the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer, Stranger Things has slowly been building up an impressive bestiary of monsters.

From The Verge • May 28, 2022

Neutrinos are, without question, the weirdest denizens of the vast and varied particle-physics bestiary: They come in three types, but somehow oscillate between these different forms as they travel.

From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2022

I returned to the table and flipped through the children’s book again before abandoning it for the bestiary.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss