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FALSE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene; much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("false saber-toothed tiger" is a kind of...):
saber-toothed tiger; sabertooth (any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene)
Holonyms ("false saber-toothed tiger" is a member of...):
genus Nimravus; Nimravus (false sabertoothed tigers)
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