smilodon

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From the genus name Smilodon.

Noun[edit]

smilodon (plural smilodons)

Any member of the extinct genus Smilodon, the saber-toothed tigers.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 180:
  From the sound of the smilodon’s roar, I knew he was far off.

See also[edit]

smilodon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
smilodon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams[edit]

monolids

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