Bestiary and Story

Bestiary

Bestiary noun - A medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals.
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Story and bestiary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Story" instead a noun "Bestiary".

Nearby Word: bestial

Story

Story noun - A work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel.

Bestiary and story are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bestiary" instead a noun "Story".

Nearby Words: storey, storied, storyline

Both words in one sentence

  • Doorstopper Moby-Dick attempted to be a lot of things about whales, including a food blog, a bestiary, a travelogue, history and oh, a story with a plot.
    Source: Doorstopper
  • Video Game / Vagrant Story Descriptions of the natures of all the monsters you fight can be found on the in-game bestiary and many of the items and accessories that you find even manage to get a brief back-story in the item menu.
  • Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons Vagrant Story: There are lizardmen which are classed as dragons by the game's bestiary as mooks, but there are several Dragons and Wyrvens who you fight as bosses, and are by extention one of a kind.
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