The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.
taxidermy
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for taxidermy.
Editorial note
Last year, without asking, my family bought some small stuffed creature (taxidermy?) from a store.
Quick take
The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of taxidermy gathered in one view.
(transitive) To stuff and mount the skin of a dead animal.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for taxidermy.
noun
The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.
verb
(transitive) To stuff and mount the skin of a dead animal.
Example sentences
Last year, without asking, my family bought some small stuffed creature (taxidermy?) from a store.
A front panel from a computer with artificially animated lights is the 'taxidermy deer head on a plaque' of the old computer world.
It's not like sharks haven't been preserved for display before, they just didn't call it art (barring counting taxidermy as an art form).
Those qualifiers make a difference; because now Wolfram is studying the zoology of programs, instead of the piecemeal taxidermy that was attempted before.
What, are we going to say that any taxidermy deer is a knock off of Bambi now?
For a moment I thought that it is at worst* again one of those taxidermy cameras.
A month later the Government found it's head in a taxidermy shop.
There were entire slowly decomposing cetaceans in enormous metal chests, aisles of taxidermy zooming off to infinity, floors and floors of fossils, large to tiny.
There’s plenty of exciting and quirky things people can do that aren’t that, like being really into taxidermy, or having a huge predatory insect collection.
I was worried it would involve some very dubious taxidermy… I am pleasantly relieved!
And after reading your entry I viewed the photos of all these bloodsuckers and ethical CEOs enjoying Sean Parker's dbag-fuelled taxidermy party at Davos.
I thought taxidermy of animals was strange, but this seems even stranger.
Quote examples
"Stuff - Paul Graham" Am I the only one who thought this was going to be about someone's taxidermy startup?
"taxidermy and tanning" knowledge is similarly disdained.
I would not think of getting a Kinect but my thought upon seeing the video was "I want to get one of these and use it to control the RasPi I'm sticking in some fake taxidermy along with a pico projector for a micro media PC."
> I say this as it is an interesting case of 'more than one way to skin a cat' You're basically skinning the cat the same way, you just don't know the terms of the steps involved or the theory (the "why") behind them, and can't generalize it to ways to skin all kinds of other animals, and even do taxidermy on them - things that the author does.
Proper noun examples
Not to be confused with Taxidermy, the art of stuffing vehicles in lifelike poses.
Taxidermy animals posed doing human things.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use taxidermy in a sentence?
Last year, without asking, my family bought some small stuffed creature (taxidermy?) from a store.
What does taxidermy mean?
The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.
What part of speech is taxidermy?
taxidermy is commonly used as noun, verb.