smilodon

[smahy-luh-don]

smi·lo·don

[smahy-luh-don]
noun
any of several saber-toothed cats of the extinct genus Smilodon, that ranged from California through most of South America during the Pleistocene Epoch and had upper canine teeth more than 6 inches (15 cm) long.


Origin:
< Neo-Latin (1842) < Greek smī́l(ē) knife + -odōn -toothed, having teeth (see -odont)
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Smilodon is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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