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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 to an angle of about 120°. It also had very strong jaw and neck muscles that let smilodon stab prey with its deadly teeth. It had a short, bobbed tail. It may have eaten thick-skinned prey like mastod...
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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 .
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  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
    `Smilodon` , `saber-toothed cat` or `saber-toothed tiger` is an extinct genus of large machairodontine saber-toothed cats that are understood to have lived between approximately 3 million to 10,000 years ago in North and South America. They are called `saber-toothed` for the extreme length of their maxillary canines. Because of the large number of fossils found, `Smilodon` is well-known to researchers. Despite the colloquial name of `saber-toothe...
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  5. Smilodon
    • (n.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. 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 ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/111

  7. 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


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