sabre-toothed tiger

noun

any of various extinct Tertiary felines of the genus Smilodon and related genera, with long curved upper canine teeth

His teeth and claws were no match for those of the leopard and the sabre-toothed tiger.

Your red hair would scare away the sabre-toothed tiger himself!

And the grizzly bear and the sabre-toothed tiger walked after the primitive Briton.

There were also wild horses, and the sabre-toothed tiger still abounded.

“I suppose the old sabre-toothed tiger, of our prehistoric days, was no more savage than these swamp fly-by-nights,” Chet laughed.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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