Definitions for saber-toothed tiger

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. saber-toothed tiger, sabertooth(noun)

    any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene

Wiktionary

  1. saber-toothed tiger(Noun)

    Any of numerous species of prehistoric cat-like mammals (genus Smilodon), characterized by massive, but short, legs and two large canine teeth, each about seven inches long and shaped like sabers.


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