edentate
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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 Glyptodon was a mailed edentate, eight feet long, resembling the little armadillo.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
The palatines are edentate, but bear strong ridges throughout their lengths.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
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