edentate
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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
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
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
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
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
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