saber-toothed tiger

saber-toothed tiger
any of several extinct members of the cat family Felidae from the Oligocene to Pleistocene Epochs, having greatly elongated, saberlike upper canine teeth. Also called sabertooth /say"beuhr toohth'/.
[1840-50]

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