sabre-toothed tiger

British

noun

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

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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

What could, on the other hand, be less boring than seeing the sabre-toothed tiger roaming the streets of Shoreditch, the hippo snoozing outside the Hippodrome?

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2013

If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?The sabre-toothed tiger.

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2012

Some predatory beast was chasing it, perhaps a sabre-toothed tiger.

From Time Magazine Archive

Machoerodus, usually known as "the sabre-toothed tiger," though not a tiger, was one of the most formidable of these transitory races.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph

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