(a.) Of or pertaining to the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two pigeons that attacked a taxidermically prepared target pigeon during a schedule of positive reinforcement for key pecking, and two that did not, were shocked through implanted electrodes in the presence of the target.
(2) Time or exposure to only the visual features of male birds (provided by taxidermic models) after copulatory opportunity did not result in differential responding to male and female conspecifics.
(3) Impervious to the taxidermical horror behind her, Rampling perches on a pouffe and fixes me with her laser gaze.
Taxidermy
Definition:
(v. t.) The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(2) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
(3) Thus I wound up on 13 February calling a London taxidermy shop and asking if they had any owls.
(4) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
(5) Nominees: Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 Taxidermy: Stuff the World, Century Films for BBC2 Science & Natural History Anatomy for Beginners Firefly for Channel 4 "A stand out programme.
(6) There are craft fairs aplenty, showcasing fine ceramics and bespoke furniture, and open studios demonstrating bronze casting and elaborate taxidermy, but most of the funds appear to have been directed at a launch event in London, a New Year's Eve party, a gala dinner and a weekend conference.
(7) I learned this at a now-defunct taxidermy shop in midtown Manhattan.
(8) Victorian taxidermy specimens stand mounted on wood plinths.
(9) • 100 North San Francisco Street, +1 928 779 6971, hotelmontevista.com 13 The Museum Club, Flagstaff, Arizona This log cabin was built in 1931 as a taxidermy curio cabinet and became a roadhouse in 1939.
(10) He brought his own perspective to it: for instance, I’d worked with pearls in a classical way before I met Lee, but then with him we took a pearl and set it into a taxidermied pheasant’s claw, and made an earring.” Joyce was also a keen amateur genealogist, who could trace her family back to the Huguenots who had settled in Spitalfields.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A trophy display at a taxidermy workshop in Namibia where Hunters from Europe and North America take their ‘kills’ to stuff them.
(12) A taxidermy outlet was one of the few open businesses.
(13) He seems to have the same attitude to trends in pop music as he has to those in taxidermy: they're not quite doing it right.
(14) Tucked into the exposed eaves of a 12th-century Norman house, decorated with animal skins and ancient taxidermy, the House of Trembling Madness is a tight, friendly squeeze where hop-heads linger over two cask ales (both from the wonderful Wild Beer Co on this visit), specialist draft Belgian beers and an amazing, ever-changing selection of bottled brews (on top of which, you can drink anything that is for sale downstairs, paying £1.25 corkage).
(15) It's so deadly that in 2009 a 3-year-old boy died after ingesting Furadan , possibly mistaking the candy-blue pesticide for a treat Another threat: taxidermy and trophy hunters who argue that by shelling out a lot of cash to shoot animals, they aid conservation efforts.
(16) While away the time by examining the pub’s impressive collection of antlers and assorted taxidermy.
(17) They call me the Herb Witch!” As well as that title, Martina, like her brother and sister, made her name as a ski racer before working in the hotel – the siblings’ trophies adorn the hotel walls, along with the odd taxidermied marmot.
(18) The spa has taxidermy above the pool, antiques complement floral wallpapers, cowhides and antlers abound, and after several nights in villages without such options, I have to appreciate the vision of the hotel owners who have created such beautiful, contemporary places to stay in such remoteness.
(19) The taxidermy shop was on a quiet street in north London and, as I approached, I saw a man and his two sons with their faces pressed against the barred front windows.
(20) First Colin Firth backed out of voicing the Peruvian, then references to sex and taxidermy earned it a PG certificate, rather than the anticipated U.