edentate

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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 Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

The palatines are edentate, but bear strong ridges throughout their lengths.

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.

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 Sterndale, Robert Armitage

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