sabre-tooth

sabre-tooth (plural sabre-tooths)

1. A sabre-toothed tiger.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87:

     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).

• sabertooth