Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having extremely long upper canine teeth; machærodont: applied to the fossil cats of the genus Machærodus and some related genera.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having long, sharp, curved
fangs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having teeth that resemble sabers
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Examples
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Ten years previously, workers digging for a new sewage treatment plant had stumbled across the fossilized bones of a Smilodon, more popularly known as a saber-toothed tiger.
The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008
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Ten years previously, workers digging for a new sewage treatment plant had stumbled across the fossilized bones of a Smilodon, more popularly known as a saber-toothed tiger.
The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008
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Ten years previously, workers digging for a new sewage treatment plant had stumbled across the fossilized bones of a Smilodon, more popularly known as a saber-toothed tiger.
The Demon Queen Richard Lewis 2008
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We should also remember that the saber-toothed cat phenotype independently appeared in placental and marsupial ancestors, lineages that were long separated not only genetically, but temporally and spatially as well.
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In other words, butterflies, tree sloths, saber-toothed tigers, and humans all evolved from single-celled organisms too small to see without a microscope.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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saber-toothed gazelles and cliff shenanigans tragic_elegance 2010
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Your body was designed for its environment—you craved salt, sugar, and fat, and you burned calories quickly because you were hunting for food and running away from saber-toothed tigers.
The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011
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Inspectors discovered 100-million-year-old heads of dinosaurs and a saber-toothed cat in mail.
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Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger.
GIVEAWAY: Win a Signed Copy of 'Altar of Eden' by James Rollins 2010
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