field guide
Noun
Meaning
a guidebook describing natural objects of some type that might be encountered in the field
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Examples
a field guide to mushrooms
A field guide to the mammals of Australia.
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Bring binoculars, a field guide and food and drink.
Every once in a long while a new field guide comes along to revolutionize and reinvigorate its particular corner of the genre.