1) Saber-toothed cat 2) Saber-toothed cat genus
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Smilodon n is an extinct genus of machairodont felid. It is perhaps the best known saber-toothed cat and lived in North America during the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 mya–10,000 years ago). One of the largest collections of its fossils has been obtained from the La Brea Tar Pits. Three species of the genus are known; they vary in size and build. Over...
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• (n.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.
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(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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extinct genus of large carnivores known collectively by the common name sabre-toothed cat (q.v.).
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(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 stron...
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Smi'lo·don noun [ Greek ......... a carving knife + ........., ........., tooth.]
(Paleon.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See
Mach...rodus .
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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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