Vocabulary Bestiary #1 (Language Arts Side Quest)

C. Collins (United States of America)
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  1. bestiary
    a medieval book with descriptions of real and fabled animals
  2. centaur
    a mythical being that is half man and half horse
  3. gargoyle
    an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure
  4. griffin
    mythical creature with an eagle's head and a lion's body
  5. hound
    a dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears
  6. mammoth
    extinct elephant widely distributed in the Pleistocene
  7. manticore
    a monster having the head of man and the body of a lion
  8. phoenix
    a legendary bird that burned to death and emerged reborn
  9. sphinx
    a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head
  10. steed
    a spirited horse for state or war
  11. unicorn
    an imaginary horse with a long horn on its forehead
  12. zebu
    a domesticated ox with a humped back and long horns
  13. troll
    supernatural creature thought to live in caves or mountains
  14. crustacean
    mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body
  15. yeti
    a large hairy creature said to live in the Himalayas
Created on Sat Sep 16 09:48:37 EDT 2023

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