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  • adjective Alternative form of sabre-toothed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having teeth that resemble sabers

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Examples

  • Not when this girl could visibly push away her own shock, face him, and ask with friendly curiosity -- as if he, Raven, should address questions to the sudden apparition of a sabertoothed weaselcat.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • Are they claiming that ancient Egyptians had to deal with dinosaurs and sabertoothed tigers running around everywhere?

    LOINCLOTHS AND MAMMOTHS AND STUFF 2007

  • PLEISTOSPORT Sitting atop the TV in my study is the skull of a sabertoothed tiger (Smilodon californicus), cast in resin from the original and painted to look exactly like it.

    The Metrognome and other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

  • Then he sprang, his body's trajectory timed to coincide with the swaying of the sabertoothed prey, and scythed its head off.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • He had determined to await the return of the sabertoothed tiger and have the encounter over for good and all.

    The Eternal Savage 1914

  • There is no "witty" caption I can offer to this picture of a cyborg sabertoothed tiger chargin 'his laser.

    Anime World Order Podcast 2009

  • Although commonly called the "sabertoothed tiger," the species is actually not closely related to the tiger, which is part of a different subfamily.

    Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2008

  • Although commonly called the "sabertoothed tiger," the species is actually not closely related to the tiger, which is part of a different subfamily.

    YubaNet.com 2008

  • No additional bones of the sabertoothed tiger had turned up in Jonathan’s sieving.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • No additional bones of the sabertoothed tiger had turned up in Jonathan’s sieving.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

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