The Collaborative International Dictionary
Machaerodus \Ma*ch[ae]"ro*dus\ (m[.a]*k[=e]"r[-o]*d[u^]s), Machairodus \Ma*chai"ro*dus\ (m[.a]*k[imac]"r[-o]*d[u^]s), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ma`chaira dagger + 'odoy`s tooth.] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.
Wiktionary
n. (saber-toothed tiger English)
Usage examples of "saber-toothed tigers".
The grating that had been before the entrance to the cave had been raised by warriors from above, and now five great tarags were slinking onto the floor of the canyonfive mighty, saber-toothed tigers.
These massive creatures were the prey of muscular jaguars, saber-toothed tigers, dire wolves with teeth able to crunch bone, and the terrible short-faced bears.
During the era in which she lived, the lady would have seen glaciers the size of Australia, woolly mammoths, and saber-toothed tigers, and she could have walked from island to island, since the sea level was 360 feet lower than it is today.
Whether or not it went back to cavemen killing saber-toothed tigers that threatened the camp or not.
Dad seemed to take it well, even when Clara talked about mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, and California condors.
By night, guards drove off skulking wolves and saber-toothed tigers that cried eerily like lost children.
It is followed by shots of the earth as it looked thirty thousand years ago, during the great ice ages, showing woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and Cro-Magnon hunters, while a narrator explains that at the same time the greatest civilization ever known by man is flourishing on the continent of Atlantis.
Stragglers once culled from the herd now (in the absence of saber-toothed tigers) operate motor vehicles, watch Jerry Springer, cavort in pollution and even breed.
It will be a strange sight to see an iron horse puffing through the primeval jungles of the stone age, while cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, mastodons and the countless other terrible creatures of the past look on from their tangled lairs in wide-eyed astonishment.
If family members got separated from each other, and saber-toothed tigers attacked one while the other was peacefully grazing elsewhere.