edentate

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

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

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 Hughes, Thomas

Armadillo, �rm-a-dil′o, n. a small American edentate quadruped, having its body armed with bands of bony plates:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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 Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

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 Nuttall, P. Austin