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nounsabre-tooth (plural sabre-tooths)
plural sabre-tooths
- A sabre-toothed tiger.
Short of limb and long of canine, this rather unlovely creature was, confusingly, not at all related to later types of sabre-tooths (which are members of the true cat family).
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87
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