stuffed animal
English
Noun
stuffed animal (plural stuffed animals)
- (US, Canada) A soft toy in the form of an animal.
- An animal that has undergone taxidermy.
- 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Palace of Green Porcelain”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 110:
- Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition. A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all!
Hypernyms
- (soft toy): soft toy
Hyponyms
- (soft toy): teddy bear
Translations
soft toy in the form of an animal
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animal that has undergone taxidermy
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