scimitar-toothed cat

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scimitar-toothed cat (plural scimitar-toothed cats)

  1. Any of various species of extinct prehistoric cats of the tribeHomotheriini.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 212:
      Highly efficient hunters who used fire, the Neanderthals may have outcompeted both sabre-toothed and scimitar-toothed cats.