SMILEDON CALIFORNICUS

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Meaning:

North American sabertooth; culmination of sabertooth development

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Smiledon californicus" is a kind of...):

saber-toothed tiger; sabertooth (any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene)

Holonyms ("Smiledon californicus" is a member of...):

genus Smiledon; Smiledon (saber-toothed tigers)

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