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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
taxidermist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He's probably the country's top taxidermist, and he's sick to the gills with eating salmon.
▪ It has to be said that this presents great difficulties for the taxidermist.
▪ Later, in Victorian times, birds of prey were persecuted by game keepers, by taxidermists and by egg collectors.
▪ The bird was sent off to be identified by a taxidermist and Uncle turned out to be right.
▪ Unlike Weinman's art work, however, Hirst's requires the skills of the taxidermist and the aquarium builder.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taxidermist

Taxidermist \Tax"i*der`mist\, n. A person skilled in taxidermy.

Wiktionary
taxidermist

n. One who practices taxidermy, the stuffing of animals.

WordNet
taxidermist

n. a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display [syn: animal stuffer, stuffer]

Usage examples of "taxidermist".

Mr Taglioni had managed to explain that by lights he meant more illumination, Mr Dodd had been sick twice and the taxidermist had a bloody nose.

They do animal dentures for taxidermists, and they’re the only lab in LA that works with actual animal teeth--that lead you had that said all taxidermists use plastic teeth was wrong.

Just how far he might trust the other Gahan did not know, and so he kept to himself the knowledge of the plan that he had forwarded to Floran and Val Dor by Ghek, but he assured the ancient taxidermist that if he were sincere in his oft-repeated declaration that O-Tar should be denounced and superseded he would have his opportunity on the night that the jeddak sought to wed the Heliumetic princess.

He was a maverick of sorts, a gambler, a master of many trades: handyman, self-styled curer, hunter and provider of plant and insect specimens for local herbalists and curers and any kind of bird or mammal life for taxidermists or pet shops.

I finally suggested that if he simply had to have a body around I would buy him one from the local rendering plant, a cow, horse, or anything he named, and when he tired of playing with it he could stuff it--he, personally, and not a taxidermist.

Local taxidermists were so skilled at grafting small deer horns onto the heads of stuffed jackrabbits that many visitors, including Flor Garrett, believed the mutant existed.