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: sapelihammastiikeri
• 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
• 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