sabre-toothed tiger
Britishnoun
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Otherwise, the reactive mechanisms that were evolved to deal with running away from a sabre-toothed tiger or whatever it was.
From Salon ● May 26, 2024
If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?The sabre-toothed tiger.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
And intermittent fasting is recommended as a way of mimicking the effects of, say, failing to catch a sabre-toothed tiger.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2012
Some predatory beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger.
From Time Magazine Archive
Possibly he followed the herds and preyed upon any dead that were killed in fights, and perhaps he played the part of jackal to the sabre-toothed tiger which still survived in his day.
From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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