Taxidermy

Tax′i-derˊmy

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Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] an arranging, arrangement (fr. [GREEK] to arrange) + [GREEK] a skin, from [GREEK] to skin: cf. F.

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Verb.

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The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets.

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Noun.

[Gr. order, and skin.] The art of preparing and preserving specimens of animals.

Various creatures preserved by taxidermy in a museum.

Gorilla diorama at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, at the Akeley Hall of African Mammals

taxidermy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural taxidermies)

art of stuffing dead animals

Afrikaans: opstopkuns
Armenian: խրտվիլակագործություն (hy) ‎(xrtvilakagorcutʿyun), տաքսիդերմիա ‎(takʿsidermia)
Asturian: taxidermia f
Catalan: taxidèrmia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 動物標本剝制術, 动物标本剥制术 (dòngwù biāoběn bō zhì shù)
Czech: preparace f
Dutch: taxidermie, het opzetten van dieren
Finnish: eläinten täyttäminen
French: taxidermie (fr) f
Galician: taxidermia f

German: Taxidermie (de) f, Tierpräparation f
Hebrew: פִּחְלוּץ m ‎(piḥlutz)
Hungarian: taxidermia
Italian: tassidermia (it) f
Japanese: 剥製術 ‎(はくせいじゅつ, hakuseijutsu), 剥製 ‎(はくせい, hakusei)
Malay: taksidermi
Polish: taksydermia (pl) f
Portuguese: taxidermia (pt) f
Romanian: taxidermie (ro) f, împăiere (ro) f
Russian: таксидерми́я (ru) f ‎(taksidermíja), наби́вка чу́чел f ‎(nabívka čúčel)
Spanish: taxidermia (es) f
Swedish: uppstoppning c
Tagalog: palaayusang-balat