taxidermy
noun
the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
taxidermic
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a word derived from
taxidermy.
Example Sentences
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To teach himself to paint, he copied from old masters in the Louvre and from plants and taxidermic animals in Paris’s natural history museums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
The well-curated bookstore can help you ID any plants or flowers you might come across while exploring local forests, and make sure to take a photo with the taxidermic grizzly bear.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Tourists were milling about inside one of them, browsing rows of instant coffee, jade eggs and taxidermic hawks and antelopes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2019
Casual movie fans might see it and shrug—or, worse, savor the superficial imperfections with an almost taxidermic fascination and let them distract from the truly awe-inspiring cinematic narrative itself.
From Slate ● May 14, 2018
Instead, they might have ended up in the same predicament as the many hunting trophies in Lord Fredrick’s study, with their shining glass eyes and stiff, taxidermic poses—oh, it was too awful to think about!
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
