scimitar-toothed cat
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[edit]Noun
[edit]scimitar-toothed cat (plural scimitar-toothed cats)
- Any of various species of extinct prehistoric cats of the tribe †Homotheriini.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 212:
- Highly efficient hunters who used fire, the Neanderthals may have outcompeted both sabre-toothed and scimitar-toothed cats.