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Look up: smilodon

  1. Smilodon
    (pronounced SMILE-oh-don) Smilodon meaning knife tooth), the largest saber-toothed cat (or saber-toothed tiger), was a fierce predator about 4-5 feet (1.2-1.5 m) long. Its one foot (30 cm) long skull had 2 huge canine teeth (they were serrated and oval in cross-section) in powerful jaws that opened ...
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  2. Smilodon
    Smi'lo·don noun [ Greek ......... a carving knife + ........., ........., tooth.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach...rodus .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/128

  3. smilodon
    <paleontology> An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Machrodus. ... Origin: Gr. A carving knife +, tooth. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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  4. Smilodon
    • (n.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.
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  5. Smilodon
    (from the article `sabre-toothed cat`) The most widely known sabre-tooth genus is the Pleistocene Smilodon. A large, short-limbed cat of North and South America, it was more massive than ...
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  6. Smilodon
    extinct genus of large carnivores known collectively by the common name sabre-toothed cat (q.v.).
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/111

  7. Smilodon
    Smilodon (Machaerodus neogaeus) also known as the Sabre-Toothed tiger was a prehistoric large cat, about the size of a modern tiger with tusks projecting some eighteen centimeters from its jaw.
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  8. Smilodon
    `Smilodon` (), often called a `saber-toothed cat` or (incorrectly) `saber-toothed tiger`, is an extinct genus of machairodonts. This sabre-toothed cat was endemic to North America and South America, living from near the beginning through the very end of the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 mya—1...
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