SABER-TOOTHED TIGER

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

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

1. any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SABER-TOOTHED TIGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

saber-toothed tiger; sabertooth

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

big cat; cat (any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saber-toothed tiger"):

Smiledon californicus (North American sabertooth; culmination of sabertooth development)

false saber-toothed tiger (North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon)

 Context examples 

The indications would be consistent with the presence of a saber-toothed tiger, such as are still found among the breccia of our caverns; but the creature actually seen was undoubtedly of a larger and more reptilian character.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)