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taxidermy
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Noun taxidermy has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
taxidermy, n. the art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect.
Derivative
taxidermal adj. taxidermic adj. taxidermist n.
Etymology
Gk taxis arrangement + derma skin
THESAURUS
taxidermy
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, zootomyROGET THESAURUS
taxidermy
Zoology
N zoology, zoonomy, zoography, zootomy, anatomy, comparative anatomy, animal physiology, comparative physiology, morphology, mammalogy, anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, herpetology, ophiology, malacology, helminthology, entomology, oryctology, paleontology, mastology, vermeology, ornithotomy, ichthyotomy, taxidermy, zoologist, zoological.
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