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say it: TAK-suh-dur-mee
taxidermy is a noun meaning "the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance". It carries one recorded sense.
the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for taxidermy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.