What is the art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets called?
taxidermy — The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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