field guide

noun

1. a portable illustrated book to help identify birds, plants, rocks, etc., as on a nature walk.

Example Sentences

After A Field Guide to Getting Lost came out, I became someone who spoke out about public life in the Bush years.

From The Daily Beast

More than anything else, Junky reads like a field guide to the American underworld.

From The Daily Beast

Within twenty minutes of intense focus, and no field guide in hand, David stopped and said, “The owl is not here.”

From The Daily Beast

The cover is green linen with the title printed in forest green letters, A Field Guide to Western Birds.

From The Daily Beast

Think of Just My Type is as an eye-opening field guide, like a good bird book.

From The Daily Beast

Field guide to the anglefishes (Pomacanthidae) in the western Atlantic.

From Project Gutenberg

So the chapter can serve as a kind of field guide to the pupil, and a kind of test of his knowledge of nature.

From Project Gutenberg

For such a program to work, a usable field guide is a requisite.

From Project Gutenberg