taxidermy

English

Wikipedia

Various creatures preserved by taxidermy in a museum.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis, “arrangement", "order”) + δέρμα (dérma, “skin”)

Noun

taxidermy (countable and uncountable; plural taxidermies)

1. The art of stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.

Derived terms

• taxidermal
• taxidermic
• taxidermied
• taxidermist
• taxidermize

Translations

art of stuffing dead animals

• Afrikaans: opstopkuns (af)
• Catalan: taxidèrmia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動物標本剝制術, 动物标本剥制术 (dòngwù biāoběn bō zhì shù)

• Czech: preparace (cs) f
• Dutch: taxidermie (nl), het opzetten van dieren (nl)
• Finnish: eläinten täyttäminen (fi)
• French: taxidermie (fr) f
• German: Taxidermie (de) f, Tierpräparation (de) f

• Hungarian: taxidermia (hu)
• Italian: tassidermia (it) f
• Japanese: 剥製術 (ja) (はくせいじゅつ, hakuseijutsu), 剥製 (ja) (はくせい, hakusei)
• Polish: taksydermia (pl) f
• Portuguese: taxidermia (pt) f
• Russian: таксидермия (ru) (taksidérmija) f, набивка чучел (ru) (nabívka čúčel) f
• Swedish: uppstoppning (sv) c