Sabretooth or sabertooth may refer to:
Animals
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Saber-toothed cat
Machairodontinae is an extinct subfamily of carnivoran mammals of the family Felidae (true cats). They were found in Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Europe from the Miocene to the Pleistocene, living from about 16 million until ...
, several prehistoric felines
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Smilodon'', a prehistoric genus of felidae
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Sabertooth fish, a deep-sea fish found in the tropics
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Sabre-toothed blenny
The false cleanerfish (''Aspidontus taeniatus'') is a species of combtooth blenny, a mimic that copies both the dance and appearance of '' Labroides dimidiatus'' (the bluestreak cleaner wrasse), a similarly colored species of cleaner wrasse. ...
, ''Aspidontus taeniatus'', a variety of fish that lives deep underwater in the benthic zone
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Sabertooth blenny, ''Plagiotremus azaleus'', a species of combtooth blenny in coral reefs in the eastern Pacific Ocean
** Sabertooth salmon, ''
Oncorhynchus rastrosus
''Oncorhynchus rastrosus'' ( synonym ''Smilodonichthys rastrosus') ''also known as the saber-toothed salmon, or spike-toothed salmon is an extinct species of salmon that lived along the Pacific coast of North America and Japan. They first appea ...
'', an ancient species of salmon
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Sabretooth tetra, the Payara, ''Hydrolycus scomberoides'', a species of gamefish in the Orinoco River in Venezuela and in the Amazon basin
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Saber-toothed predator
A saber-tooth (alternatively spelled sabre-tooth) is any member of various extinct groups of predatory therapsids, predominantly carnivoran mammals, that are characterized by long, curved saber-shaped canine teeth which protruded from the m ...
, several distantly related lineages of synapsids
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Thylacosmilus'', a genus of sabre-toothed metatherian predators from the Miocene period
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Gorgonopsia
Gorgonopsia (from the Greek Gorgon, a mythological beast, and 'aspect') is an extinct clade of sabre-toothed therapsids from the Middle to Upper Permian roughly 265 to 252 million years ago. They are characterised by a long and narrow skull, ...
, an extinct group of sabre-tooth therapsids from the Middle and Late Permian
Sports
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Sabretooth (mascot), the mascot for the Buffalo Sabres National Hockey League team
Fiction
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Sabretooth (comics)
Sabretooth (Victor Creed) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men, in particular as an enemy of the mutant Wolverine. Created by writer Chris Claremont and ...
, a Marvel Comics supervillain, and arch-enemy of Wolverine.
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''Sabretooth'' (film), a 2002 made-for-TV movie
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Sabre-Tooth'', a 1966 book by Peter O'Donnell featuring the character Modesty Blaise
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Captain Sabertooth
Captain Sabertooth (in Norwegian: Kaptein Sabeltann) is a long running series that centers around the eponymous pirate Captain Sabertooth, who was created and was originally portrayed by the Norwegian singer, composer, author and actor Terje Formo ...
'', a series of stage plays, theatrical films, and a television series by the Norwegian singer and actor Terje Formoe
Other uses
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SABERTOOTH'', a protein sequence and structure alignment algorithm
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Sabertooth Games, a now defunct Memphis, Tennessee based game company, founded in 2001
See also
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Sabercat (disambiguation)
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