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sabre-toothed tiger

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Not for him the modern age, in which "the sabre-toothed tiger and the ant are our paragons, and the butterfly is condemned for its wings, which are uneconomic."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Girls of Central High in Camp Or, the Old Professor's Secret by Gertrude W. Morrison

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