Machair'odus, a gigantic sabre-toothed tiger of the Pleistocene period, with canine teeth 6 or 8 inches long, and jagged at their edges like a fine saw. Its remains were found in Kent's Cavern (q.v.).
Machair'odus
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 771
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