Definitions
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- adjective Having
massive curved upper canine teeth
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having teeth that resemble sabers
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Examples
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A throwback to the days of sabre-toothed tiger underwear and men who learned that dead things tasted better once blackened on the open flame!
Archive 2010-03-01 kludge 2010
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I'd like to see the genomic differences between elephants and mastodons, and tigers and sabre-toothed cats…and maybe someday we can think about rebuilding a few extinct species.
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Some south american late-cretaceous terrestial crocodylians from south america evolved large teeth which were also similar to those of sabre-toothed cats, as well as some "mammal-like reptiles".
BoarCroc James Gurney 2010
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A throwback to the days of sabre-toothed tiger underwear and men who learned that dead things tasted better once blackened on the open flame!
Man Week, Day 4 kludge 2010
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To live "and have one's being under the shadow of a man-eater" was not so different from prehistoric times, Corbett reflected, when early humans cowered in caves to escape the sabre-toothed tiger.
One last chance: can we save the tiger? Patrick Barkham 2010
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As they advanced, the mammoth, sabre-toothed cats, cave bears, giant sloths, camels, horses, and wholly sic rhinos fell to their stone weapons and deliberately set fires.
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The early Britons would have lived alongside sabre-toothed cats and hyenas, primitive horses, red deer and southern mammoths in a climate similar to that of southern Britain today, though winters were typically a few degrees colder.
First humans arrived in Britain 250,000 years earlier than thought 2010
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But, of course, this Brazil side aren't the ferocious sabre-toothed superpredators of old.
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But, let's be realistic, it isn't very often that our lives are directly threatened these days, for example, we are rarely confronted by sabre-toothed tigers or warring tribes on a daily basis (okay, never).
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Do you think they see sabre-toothed cats, big as tigers?
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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