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sabre-tooth

sabre-tooth noun: a sabre-toothed tiger.

Noun

sabre-tooth (plural sabre-tooths)

  1. A sabre-toothed tiger.
    • Short of limb and long of canine, this rather unlovely creature was, confusingly, not at all related to later types of sabre-tooths (which are members of the true cat family).2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87

Forms of sabre-tooth

pluralsabre-tooths

Questions about sabre-tooth

What does sabre-tooth mean?
Sabre-tooth means a sabre-toothed tiger.
What part of speech is sabre-tooth?
Sabre-tooth is a noun.
What is the plural of sabre-tooth?
The plural of sabre-tooth is sabre-tooths.

Words near sabre-tooth in the dictionary

  1. sabre-rattle
  2. sabre-rattled
  3. sabre-rattles
  4. sabre-rattling
  5. sabre-rattlings
  6. sabre-tooth
  7. sabre-toothed
  8. sabre-toothed cat
  9. sabre-toothed cats
  10. sabre-toothed tiger
  11. sabre-toothed tigers

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