bestiary

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.

The bestiary of acceptable species on which respectable researchers can experiment is expanding.

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

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.

Perhaps you’re familiar with Ramparts magazine’s bestiaries, which lampooned the political follies of the 1960s, or “Sorel’s Unfamiliar Quotations” in The Atlantic Monthly.