saber-toothed
IPA: sˈeɪbɝtˈuðd
adjective
- Having long, sharp, curved fangs
sabertoothed
IPA: sˈeɪbɝtˈuðd
adjective
- Alternative form of sabre-toothed [Having massive curved upper canine teeth.]
Examples of "saber-toothed" in Sentences
- January 7th, 2010 saber-toothed gazelles and cliff shenanigans
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- Inspectors discovered 100-million-year-old heads of dinosaurs and a saber-toothed cat in mail.
- In other words, butterflies, tree sloths, saber-toothed tigers, and humans all evolved from single-celled organisms too small to see without a microscope.
- Ten years previously, workers digging for a new sewage treatment plant had stumbled across the fossilized bones of a Smilodon, more popularly known as a saber-toothed tiger.
- Your body was designed for its environment—you craved salt, sugar, and fat, and you burned calories quickly because you were hunting for food and running away from saber-toothed tigers.
- We should also remember that the saber-toothed cat phenotype independently appeared in placental and marsupial ancestors, lineages that were long separated not only genetically, but temporally and spatially as well.
- Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger.