sabre-toothed tiger

noun

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

Example Sentences

Otherwise, the reactive mechanisms that were evolved to deal with running away from a sabre-toothed tiger or whatever it was.

From Salon

"If our ancestors heard a rustle in the bushes and assumed it was a sabre-toothed tiger … they survived. Even if nine times out of 10 it wasn't a sabre-toothed cat, but merely the wind rustling the bushes, it still paid off to overestimate the danger, because on the 10th occasion it might actually be a sabre-toothed tiger."

From Salon

They were a staple from my childhood and it gives me that nostalgic feeling of being a kid, because there are all these sabre-toothed tiger animatronic things in the museum, and I just am a sucker for anything like that.

From New York Times

The spread of hominims – early humans and related species such as Neanderthals – from Africa thousands of years ago coincided with the extinction of megafauna such as the mammoth, the sabre-toothed tiger and the glyptodon, an armadillo-like creature the size of a car.

From The Guardian

The spread of hominims - early humans and relatives such as Neanderthals - from Africa coincided with the extinction of mammals such as the mammoths, sabre-toothed tiger and glyptodon, an armadillo-like creature the size of a car.

From Reuters