Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A saber-toothed fossil cat of the genus Machærodus.
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- noun A sabertooth tiger.
- noun Any animal with
saber -liketeeth .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene
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Examples
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In "Pride" by Mary Turzillo, a man rescues a baby sabertooth from a cloning facility and raises it like a pet.
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Synopsis: A man rescues a baby sabertooth from a cloning facility and raises it like a pet.
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This mass extinction was caused by newly arrived humans tipping the balance of power and competing with major predators such as sabertooth cats, the authors of the new analysis argue.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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If their close to wolverine's origins graffic novel for the beggining of the movie that would be deccent , i.e. making you assume sabbertooth was wolverine and the asthmatic kid was just a character but later finding out that the asthmatic kid was the love child of the drunkard and abusive gardener who was also the father of the later to find out "sabertooth",who watched his real father die by the hands of the asthmatic friend who is actually wolverine .
First X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer - What Do You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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More steampunk dinosaurs fighting cyberpunk sabertooth cats please.
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Instead of hunting dinosaurs I'd rather go back to about 10,000BC and go after the sabertooth lion, the shortfaced bear and the wolly mamoth.
This one is for all the archaeologists and History Channel fans out there. 2009
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Instead of hunting dinosaurs I'd rather go back to about 10,000BC and go after the sabertooth lion, the shortfaced bear and the wolly mamoth.
This one is for all the archaeologists and History Channel fans out there. 2009
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Dinosaur and megafauna (like the sloth, sabertooth and mammoth) did not roam the land at the same time.
Worth Watching - April 7: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Teaser Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2008
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That your great-time-fifty grandpaw got et by a sabertooth lion and thus you won't get a house cat hasn't been demonstrated as anything close to valid.
Deep Phobic Memory Steven Barnes 2010
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It never really looked right, so we took everything out yesterday and have gone more for the rock/plant natural look -- although we still have a sabertooth tiger "skull" in the middle.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
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