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- proper noun A
genus ofextinct mammals allied to thecats , and having in the upperjaw canine teeth of remarkablesize andstrength ; hence calledsaber-toothed tigers .
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Examples
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Another called the Machairodus, was wholly carnivorous, and combined the size and weight of the grizzly bear with the jaws and teeth of the Bengal tiger.
Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle
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_The Sabre-toothed Felis_ (_Machairodus latidens_).
The Tree-Dwellers Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
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_, Macrauchenia, the Glyptodon, and the sabre-toothed tiger (Machairodus).
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Hipparion, an ancestral form of horse; the Helladotherium, a huge animal bigger than the giraffe; the Ancylotherium, one of the Edentata; the huge Dinotherium; the Aceratherium, allied to the rhinoceros; and the monstrous Chalicotherium, allied to the swine and ruminants, but as large as a rhinoceros; and to prey upon these, the great Machairodus or sabre-toothed tiger.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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a sabre-toothed felis (_Machairodus latidens_), sometimes, though incorrectly, referred to as the cave-tiger.
The Tree-Dwellers Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
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Smilodon in this case], gave some insight into their need of a complete and strong defence of all the exposed parts of the body and the tail, since they had not the powerful claws with which the Megatherioid quadrupeds [i.e. giant ground sloths] might have waged war with the Machairodus.
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