FALSE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does false saber-toothed tiger mean? 

• FALSE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER (noun)
  The noun FALSE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER has 1 sense:

1. North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon

  Familiarity information: FALSE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("false saber-toothed tiger" is a kind of...):

saber-toothed tiger; sabertooth (any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene)

Holonyms ("false saber-toothed tiger" is a member of...):

genus Nimravus; Nimravus (false sabertoothed tigers)