bestiary

And if you need help keeping straight your behemoths, bonnacons and other mythical creatures, interior art by Ashley Mackenzie, as well as a bestiary illustrated by Virginia Allyn, serve as helpful guides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

Here, reducing the medieval bestiary to a contemporary footnote makes for a listless conclusion to an otherwise strong and compelling show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2019

Jorge Borges, in his recent bestiary of mythical creatures, notes that the idea of round beasts was imagined by many speculative minds, and Johannes Kepler once argued that the earth itself is such a being.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Such animals were found in bestiaries, which were illustrated books offering the most popular sources of information about animals, real or imaginary, during the Middle Ages.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024

The cartoonish, sometimes possessed looks of his creatures recall imagery from Japanese mythology and medieval bestiaries.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2021

Medieval bestiaries were books that served as compendiums of creatures both fantastic and real.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019

She is a magpie, plucking language from myriad arenas: bestiaries, business documents, tourist pamphlets.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2016

However, a closer examination of Muggle bestiaries of that period demonstrates that most magical beasts either escaped Muggle notice completely or were mistaken for something else.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling