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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SMILODON

Smi "lo *don, n. Etym: [Gr. (Paleon.)

 

Defn: An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

smilodon

smilodon |ˈsmɪlədɒn | ▶noun a large sabre-toothed cat of the Pleistocene epoch (see sabretooth ). ●Smilodon fatalis of North America and Smilodon populator of South America. ORIGIN modern Latin, from Greek smilē ‘smile ’ + odous, odont- ‘tooth ’.

 

Oxford Dictionary

smilodon

smilodon |ˈsmɪlədɒn | ▶noun a large sabre-toothed cat of the Pleistocene epoch (see sabretooth ). ●Smilodon fatalis of North America and Smilodon populator of South America. ORIGIN modern Latin, from Greek smilē ‘smile ’ + odous, odont- ‘tooth ’.