Stuffed animal

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A soft toy in the form of an animal. Canada, US
  2. 2
    An animal that has undergone taxidermy.

    "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!"

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cuddlycuddly-lookingplushplush toyplush-likeprepared specimen

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"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!"

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