edentate
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The palatines are edentate, but bear strong ridges throughout their lengths.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
I tried to call to him to move; but how could a poor edentate like myself articulate a word?
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
They are however without teeth only in the front of the jaw in all, but with a few molars in some, the Indian forms however are truly edentate, having no teeth at all.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
He secured Brigham's everlasting gratitude by making him a very handsome false set, and performing the same service for all of his favorite, but edentate wives.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
The Glyptodon was a mailed edentate, eight feet long, resembling the little armadillo.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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