Machairodusn.
/məˈkʌɪrədəs/, U.S. /məˈkaɪrədəs/ Palaeontology.
A genus of sabre-toothed fossil felids; (also machairodus) a felid of this genus.
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Machairodus1836
sabre-toothed lion1849
machairodont1889
sabre-tooth1896
sabre-tooth cat1906
1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. 91 Machairodus... Allied to Bear.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 244/1 The canine teeth of Machairodus are very far from those of the bears.
1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. ii. 31 The Machairodus, or sabre-toothed lion.
1981 J. May Many-colored Land (1982) ii. xi. 198 Was it machairodus, one of the leonine sabertooth cats that were the commonest..predators [printed predactors] of the Pliocene?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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