taxidermy
/ˈtaksɪˌdəːmi
/noun [mass noun]
The art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect.A Case of Curiosities is devoted to the art of taxidermy, decorative, restorative and anthropomorphic....
- Scriver's success in sculpting animal forms for his taxidermy work encouraged the artist to pursue more traditional forms of sculpture.
- The process of taxidermy sees the skin of an animal removed, preserved and arranged around a model of the original body.
Derivatives
taxidermal
- Now, breathing in the chill river spray, I wonder if the taxidermal specimen might be enough.
- I've painted a backdrop and I have some taxidermal crows that I've mounted.
- Back at Walton Hall he set grimly to work, applying his taxidermal brilliance to a hideous revenge.
taxidermic
- But Carlee Fernandez's manipulations of taxidermic animals stopped me in my gallery-going tracks.
- He works almost entirely from a roomy house that sits on a wooded Oregon mountain top and is decorated with taxidermic specimens, including a piranha and a crocodile.
- The memoirs are far advanced beyond the taxidermic tributes of the nineteenth century, but the relationship between the articles and the memoirs is uneasy.
taxidermically
- We also presented a taxidermically mounted wallaby to quantify the response to a nonpredatory, familiar vertebrate.
- Also provided are taxidermically prepared fish wherein the fish head is prepared by the foregoing processes.
- Inside were taxidermically preserved specimens of a hummingbird, snake, bat, lizard, frog, and praying mantis.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Greek taxis 'arrangement' + derma 'skin'.