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edentate

[ee-den-tayt] / iˈdɛn teɪt /
NOUN
primitive animal
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Ant-eaters, a family of edentate mammals, have a tubular mouth with a small aperture, and a long tongue covered with a viscid secretion, which they thrust into the ant-hills and then withdraw covered with ants.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

A parallel case is, perhaps, to be found in the hairy armadillo, an extremely versatile and intelligent animal, although only an edentate.

From The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

The Glyptodon was a mailed edentate, eight feet long, resembling the little armadillo.

From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton

To lose one’s spoon would be almost as serious as it is for an edentate person to lose his set of false teeth.”

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

The palatine is small, curved anteriorly and edentate.

From The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by Juan R. león


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