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sabre-tooth

nounB1leans spoken

A sabre-tooth is an extinct cat with enormous upper fangs. Reconstruct a sabre-tooth.

The teeth were long and surprisingly fragile, so the bite went to the throat rather than into bone. A sabre-tooth was built for wrestling prey down, with front legs far heavier than a lion's.

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Definitions of sabre-tooth

  1. 1nounsabre-toothAn extinct cat with enormous upper fangs.B1

    “The sabre-tooth skulls came out of a tar pit in their thousands.”

sabre-tooth is an animal.

Also accepted in games: saber-tooth

Practised in Dinosaurs & Prehistory

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