saber-toothed tiger
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of saber-toothed tiger
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Emojis, Disney characters, cigarettes and more pile up in humorous scenes that include a saber-toothed tiger driving a dune buggy and a pair of corvids fighting over a worm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Other natural history items up for auction on Thursday include a complete T-rex rooted tooth, which sold for just over $100,000, a Triceratops skull, which sold for $661,500, and a saber-toothed tiger skull.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2022
Possibly this was a sensible adaptation for our hunter-gatherer forebears; if there’s a saber-toothed tiger standing in front of you, almost anything you might try is potentially more useful than patiently waiting to become lunch.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2022
A woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger and a sloth find a human baby and try to reunite him with his tribe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
He’d planted saber-toothed tiger teeth by mistake, and raised a batch of skeleton kittens from the soil.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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