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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of taxidermize.

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  • "A taxidermized animal," concludes Mr. Madden, "is a remembered animal, a memorialized animal, and something memorialized is something loved."

    Wildlife Without Life Elizabeth Lowry 2011

  • Barry, it turns out, creates dioramas of both historic and fictional scenes, using taxidermized mice (one of the film's most consistently witty and weird running gags).

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks 2010

  • Barry, it turns out, creates dioramas of both historic and fictional scenes, using taxidermized mice one of the film's most consistently witty and weird running gags.

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks Marshall Fine 2010

  • Barry, it turns out, creates dioramas of both historic and fictional scenes, using taxidermized mice one of the film's most consistently witty and weird running gags.

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks Marshall Fine 2010

  • Barry, it turns out, creates dioramas of both historic and fictional scenes, using taxidermized mice (one of the film's most consistently witty and weird running gags).

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Dinner for Schmucks 2010

  • You'll run across the world's oldest preserved steam locomotive, circa 1815, as well as a taxidermized Dolly, the infamous cloned sheep.

    The Celtic Alternative 2007

  • I would like to join my colleague Geoff Pullum in celebrating Jan Freeman's superb takedown of that mangiest of stuffed owls, Strunk and White's inescapable The Elements of Style, which has just undergone its latest restuffing, this time with illustrations by Maira Kalman it's been taxidermized more often than Lenin's corpse.

    languagehat.com: FRANKENSTRUNK. 2005

  • Movie Columnist and Critic The opening-titles sequence of offers a series of curious tableaux: meticulously constructed dioramas of two taxidermized mice, dressed up like people, in various stages of

    WN.com - Articles related to Meryl Streep playing Tina Fey's mom in comedy 2010

  • This old taxidermized bird was hovering above our table.

    Roadfood.com Reviews 2009

  • The taxidermized body was completely destroyed in a fire in 1975.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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