Taxidermy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Taxidermy \Tax"i*der`my\, n. [Gr. ? an arranging, arrangement
     (fr. ? to arrange) + ? a skin, from ? to skin: cf. F.
     taxidermie. See {Tactics}, {Tear}, v. t.]
     The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of
     animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for
     cabinets.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  taxidermy
       n : the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have
           lifelike appearance

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, zootomy