Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The art or operation of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals, and also of stuffing and mounting the skins so as to give them as close a resemblance to the living forms as possible. See stuffing, 3.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis, "arrangement", "order") + δέρμα (dérma, "skin") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Especially in the manipulation of frail skins and delicate feathers, in bird taxidermy, is this so.”
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“Of course, as it turns out, the world of taxidermy is a wide, varied, sometimes disturbing place.”
“Angela Wilson: I started in taxidermy when I was 16.”
“She recalls her taxidermy teacher, George Jamieson, being asked by the family of a deceased Hell's Angel to stretch the tattooed skin from the biker's back over a canvas: "He said the idea of having a man's torso on his desk was just too much so he turned them down.”
“The taxidermists that I respect the most call taxidermy a highly skilled craft.”
“Other services, such as taxidermy and safari planning, are also available.”
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“The word "taxidermy" jumped out at me at the same time as I looked out the window and saw a sign for a tux shop, so my brain mixed the two and got "tuxidermy.”
“When I was in high school I took one of those career-placement tests and it came back with "taxidermy" as my number one career match up.”
“So far I have pretty well eliminated any ideas of a tent or a rug, and I can't see a dwarf flying a black fur flag ... unless, of course, he plans to take up taxidermy, which is an unusual occupa - tion for dwarves as far as I have seen.”
“They were true hoarders and collectors and the house is full of natural history specimens, such as taxidermy, minerals and butterflies.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘taxidermy’.
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museum words
words from work
provenance, accession, deaccession, conservation, preparator, registrar, curator, jargon, Oz clip, bell plate, stretcher, ornate and 115 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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parody's Words
defenestrate, behemoth, floss, macchiato, glom, emu, alpaca, crocheted, ampersand, charade, conflate, salacious and 193 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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taxo-, taxi-, tax-
of or relating to grouping or arranging
taxonomy, taxidermy, taxidermist, heterotaxia, parataxis, homotaxy
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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Random and Lovely Words.
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scrupulous, evasive, dandy, lovely, complacent, pickle, tomato, jingle, chipper, telepathy, snicker, wry and 74 more...
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intelligent words
like i said.
sporadic, inchoate, succour, prescient, taxidermy, menagerie, ampersand, defenestrate, longanimity, discombobulate, lygophilia, perspicacity and 11 more...
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dying arts
... according to the Internet
blackberry picking, kimono making, letter writing, doll repair, calligraphy, basket weaving, sword making, mechanical watch ..., making consomme, pipe organ playing, silk flower making, hat making and 54 more...
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curiosity cabinet
menagerie, zeitgeist, wunderkind, zoetrope, taxidermy, wunderkammer, automatons, bric-à-brac, theodolite
Tweets
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sonofgroucho There's a great restaurant in Barcelona called Taxidermista: it's in a former taxidermist's premises. Apr 26, 2007