The largest saber-toothed cat of the Ice Age is the smilodon. What does the name smilodon literally translate as?

While ancient translations are often tricky, smilodon is most commonly translated as a combination of smil- a wood carving blade and -odon or -odont as tooth, so blade-toothed.

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