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false saber-toothed tiger

DEFINITIONS OF: false saber-toothed tiger

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

Type 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
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