false saber-toothed tiger

Definitions of false saber-toothed tiger
  1. noun
    North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon
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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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