What is "saber-toothed"

Usage examples of "saber-toothed".

One of the most spectacular pre-industrial extinction events was that of the Pleistocene megafauna -- the saber-toothed cats, mammoths, dire wolves, giant ground sloths, glyptodonts, and all those other animals familiar from museum dioramas.

America, as it was the end of the mammoth and the mastodon and smilodon, the saber-toothed cat, and the huge ground sloth, except that at about the time the original bison vanished, a much smaller and better-adapted version developed in Asia and made its own long trek across a new bridge into America.

Chainer impulsively created two huge saber-toothed anacondas and set them on one another.

Anybody who would like to use his mouth as an offensive weapon, can change it by asking, and be a corkindrill or a saber-toothed tiger.

Larger than a bald eagle, she was white with bluish chevrons, furry, monkey-faced, falcon-beaked, saber-toothed, wolf-eared, bat-winged, archeopteryx-tailed, and vulture-footed.

Deep under the sand not far from the wells lay the skull and bones of a saber-toothed cat, and nearer still, the bones of a giant sloth.

That might have been the end of the bison in America, as it was the end of the mammoth and the mastodon and smilodon, the saber-toothed cat, and the huge ground sloth, except that at about the time the original bison vanished, a much smaller and better-adapted version developed in Asia and made its own long trek across a new bridge into America.

Apparently feeling at a disadvantage, he stood again and went to lean on the mantel, soothing himself with swallows of booze and strokes down the rustic back of a saber-toothed cat, its body made from an oversized spring, a lug nut for a head.

He was not afraid that the saber-toothed tiger would run away from him -- that was not Oo's way -- but he did not wish to come unexpectedly upon the animal in the thick grass.

Just beyond the elevator, its trunk swaying hugely above the saber-toothed tiger, stood a giant elephant with twelve-foot tusks.

Instead of holding a sword, she was thrusting a spear into what Pitt recognized as a saber-toothed tiger, an animal extinct for thousands of years.

But this time instead of a rabbit it had caught a saber-toothed tiger.

Over the years, ashes and dust had continued to settle, laying a smooth, lush carpet, over which my saber-toothed tiger had recently been wandering this way and that.

From a hill, a lone saber-toothed tiger crouched, only ear and eyes showing.

No sign of pursuit had developed, and von Horst thought it probable that the tribesmen had been so occupied with the saber-toothed tiger rampant among them that they had failed to notice the sudden departure of Old White and himself.