edentate
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One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants.
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The palatines are edentate, but bear strong ridges throughout their lengths.
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Tubulidentata.—The second suborder of edentates, namely the Tubulidentata, is represented at the present day only by the aard-varks, or ant-bears, of Africa, constituting the family Orycteropodidae and the genus Orycteropus.
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Aside from marsupials and New World monkeys, its most characteristic animals were edentates and very queer ungulates with no resemblance to those of any other continent.
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The palatine is small, curved anteriorly and edentate.
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