Smiledon californicus

Definitions of Smiledon californicus
  1. noun
    North American sabertooth; culmination of sabertooth development
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    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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