bestiary

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bestiary词义

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n. 动物寓言集

复数: bestiaries;

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1. The animals listed in this bestiary range from the mundane to the fantastic.: 这个动物寓言集中列举了各种普通的和奇妙的动物.

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bestiary (n.): "medieval treatise on beasts" usually with moralistic overtones, 1818, from Medieval Latin bestiarium "a menagerie," also "a book about animals", from bestia (see beast). A Latin term for such works was liber de bestiis compositus. Roman bestiarius meant "a fighter against beasts in the public entertainments."