Taxidermy

Definition: Taxidermy

Taxidermy

Noun

1. The art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance.

Date "taxidermy" was first used: 1820. (references)

Etymology: Taxidermy \Tax"i*der`my\, noun. [from Greek expression ta`xis an arranging, arrangement (from ta`ssein to arrange) skin, from to skin: compare to the French expression taxidermie. See Tactics, Tear, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Taxidermy

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Zoology	Anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, herpetology, ophiology, malacology, helminthology, entomology, oryctology, paleontology, mastology, vermeology; ichthy. ichthyotomy; taxidermy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Taxidermy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Taxidermy (Greek for the arrangement of the skin) is the art of mounting or reproducing animals for display or study. This is a practice generally done with vertebrates, but occasionally with other less developed species.

Especially over the last century, the methods that taxidermists practice have been improved, heightening the quality of the practice.

Taxidermists may practice professionally, as museum personnel, or merely as amateurs, such as hobbyists, hunters and fishers. To practice taxidermy, one must be extremely familiar with anatomy, dissection techniques, sculpture and painting, as well as tanning.

One problem with taxidermy is the level of constant practice that all taxidermists must endure, so that the specimen does look life-like, and not like a tacky joke.

One of the most common techniques for modern taxidermists begins by freezing the animal's carcass in a large freezer, often a butcher's. The taxidermist then removes the skin, to be tanned and treated for later. The remaining muscle fibers and bones are then submerged in plaster of Paris, to create a cast of the animal. With this cast, a fiber-glass sculpture is created, of which the fur or skin can be reattached to. Glass eyes are then usually added to the display, and possibly also false teeth, depending on the subject's original dental condition.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Taxidermy."

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Modern Usage: Taxidermy

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Joe's Taxidermy. You snuff 'em, we stuff 'em. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I know a taxidermy man back home. (Jaws; writing credit: Peter Benchley; Carl Gottlieb)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Taxidermy

Domain	Title
Books	Breakthrough Bird Taxidermy Manual (reference) Home Book of Taxidermy and Tanning (reference) Taxidermy (reference) Taxidermy Color or the Dummy Guide to Speedy Airbrush Color Workbook (reference) Taxidermy Guide (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Taxidermy Today (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Taxidermy (+1 Bonus Track) [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Taxidermy

"Taxidermy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Taxidermy" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	71.43%	5	157,705
Adjective (general or positive)	28.57%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Taxidermy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
taxidermy	915
taxidermy supply	105
taxidermy school	62
fish taxidermy	54
taxidermy net	31
taxidermy canada	27
taxidermy for sale	26
bird taxidermy	23
mckenzie taxidermy	19
quebec taxidermy	17
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Modern Translations: Taxidermy

Language		Translations for "taxidermy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		balsamim kafshësh. (various references)

Arabic		‏تحنيط الحيوانات, ‏تصبير الحيوانات. (various references)

Bulgarian		препариране на животни. (various references)

Danish		taksidermi. (various references)

Dutch		taxidermie, prepareren, opzetten (facing, keying, pad, spread out, stuff, swell, tousle, upholster, wedging). (various references)

Farsi		پوست ارایی , پرکردن پوست حیوانات باکاه وغیره . (various references)

French		taxidermie, empaillage. (various references)

German		Taxidermie. (various references)

Greek		ταρίχευση δέρματων ζώων, ταρίχευση (embalment, embalming, mummification). (various references)

Hebrew		פחלוץ, א�"ראות, �"תק� ת א�"רים. (various references)

Hungarian		állatkitömés. (various references)

Italian		tassidermia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		剥製�" . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はくせいじゅつ. (various references)

Manx		pronney (cram, eating greedily, fill, filling, press; overcrowding, ram home, stuff, stuffing). (various references)

Pig Latin		axidermytay.(various references)

Portuguese		taxidermia (stuffing). (various references)

Russian		набивка чучел. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		veština punjenja životinja. (various references)

Spanish		taxidermia, taqui/dermia. (various references)

Swedish		taxidermi, uppstoppning (stuffing). (various references)

Thai		เทคนิคการทำให้ซากสัตว์คงส� าพเหมือนมีชีวิต. (various references)

Turkish		tahnitçilik, hayvan doldurma. (various references)

Vietnamese		khoa nh�"i xác động vật. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Taxidermy

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	taxis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Taxidermy

Misspellings
	"Taxidermy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: taxadermy, taxiderm, taxidermey, taxidermie, taxodermy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Taxidermy"

Words rhyming with "taxidermy" (pronounced 'Tax"i*der`my'): Heliochromy, Homodermy, Homoplasmy, Metallochromy, Monochromy, Panspermy, Polychromy, Polyspermy, Typocosmy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Taxidermy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-m-r-t-x-y"
	-2 letters: daytime, dietary, midyear, readmit.
	-3 letters: admire, admixt, airted, dreamt, dreamy, imaret, marted, matrix, mitred, myriad, remixt, taxied, tirade.
	-4 letters: admit, admix, aider, aimed, aimer, aired, amide, amity, armed, armet, axite, dairy, dater, deair, deary, deity, demit, derat, deray, derma, diary, dimer, dirty, dream, etyma, extra, irade, irate, madre, mated, mater, matey, mayed, meaty, media, merit, mired, mirex, miter, mitre, mixed, mixer, radix, ramet, ramie, rated, raxed, rayed, ready, redia, remit, remix, retax, retia, rimed, tamed, tamer, tardy, tared, taxed, taxer, teary, terai, timed, timer, tired, trade, tread, triad, tried, tryma, tyred, yaird.
	-5 letters: adit, aery, aide, airt, airy, amid, amie, amir, arid, army, arty, axed, dame, dare, dart, date, dear, demy, derm, dexy, diet, dime, dire, dirt, dita, dite, dram, drat, dray, dyer, edit, emir, emit, emyd, exam, exit, eyra, idea, idem, ired, item, made, maid, mair, mare, mart, mate, maxi, mead, meat, meta, mire, miry, mite, mity, mixt, raid, rami, rate, read, ream, ride, rime, rimy, rite, tame, tare, taxi, team, tear, term, tide, tidy, tied, tier, time, tire, trad, tram, tray, trey, trim, tyer, tyre, yard, yare, year, yeti, yird.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-m-r-t-x-y"
	+4 letters: ambidexterity.
	+5 letters: ambidextrously, extrapyramidal.
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