Taxidermy

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Various creatures preserved by taxidermy in a museum.

English

Noun

Taxidermy (countable and uncountable; plural taxidermies)

1. The art of stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

Derived terms

• taxidermal
• taxidermic
• taxidermied
• taxidermist

Thesaurus

anatomy, anhydration, animal physiology, anthropology, biology, blast-freezing, bottling, brining, canning, comparative anatomy, conchology, corning, curing, dehydration, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, ecology, embalming, entomology, ethology, evaporation, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, helminthology, herpetology, ichthyology, irradiation, jerking, malacology, mammalogy, marination, mummification, ornithology, pickling, potting, protozoology, quick-freezing, refrigeration, salting, seasoning, smoking, stuffing, taxonomy, tinning, zoogeography, zoography, zoology, zoonomy, zoopathology, zoophysics, zootaxy, zootomy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis, “arrangement", "order”) + δέρμα (dérma, “skin”)

Translations

The art of stuffing dead animals

Catalan: taxidèrmia (ca) f. Czech: preparace (cs) f. French: taxidermie (fr) f. German: Taxidermie (de) f.

Hungarian: taxidermia (hu) Polish: taksydermia (pl) f. Portuguese: taxidermia (pt) f. Russian: таксидермия (ru) f.