sabre-toothed tiger

English

Fossil of a sabre-toothed tiger (Smilodon californicus)

Alternative forms

• saber-toothed tiger

Noun

sabre-toothed tiger (plural sabre-toothed tigers)

1. Any of numerous species of extinct cat-like mammals, of the †Machairodontinae subfamily of the Felidae.

Synonyms

• sabrecat / sabercat
• sabre-tooth / sabretooth
• sabre-toothed cat / saber-toothed cat

Translations

prehistoric cat

Arabic: نِمْر ذُو صَابِر أَسْنَان m (nimr ḏū ṣābir ʔasnān), نِمْرَة ذَات صَابِر أَسْنَان f (nimra(t) ḏāt ṣābir ʔasnān) Bulgarian: саблезъб тигър m (sablezǎb tigǎr) Chinese: Mandarin: 劍齒虎／剑齿虎 (zh) (jiànchǐhǔ) Danish: sabelkat c Dutch: sabeltandtijger (nl) m Esperanto: smilodonto Finnish: sapelihammaskissa (fi) French: tigre à dents de sabre (fr) m German: Säbelzahntiger (de) m, Säbelzahnkatze f Irish: tíogar cuarfhiaclach m, cat cuarfhiaclach m Japanese: 剣歯虎 (ja) (けんしこ, kenshiko), サーベルタイガー (sāberu taigā) Korean: 검치호(劍齒虎) (geomchiho) Norwegian: sabeltanntiger m, sabeltannkatt m Polish: tygrys szablozębny m Portuguese: tigre-dente-de-sabre m Russian: саблезу́бая ко́шка f (sablezúbaja kóška) (lit.: sabre-toothed cat), саблезу́бый тигр (ru) m (sablezúbyj tigr) Spanish: diente de sable m, tigre dientes de sable m, felino dientes de sable m Swedish: sabeltandad tiger c Turkish: kılıç dişli kaplan

References

• sabre-toothed tiger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Machairodontinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Machairodontinae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• saber-toothed tiger