edentate
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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
The Glyptodon was a mailed edentate, eight feet long, resembling the little armadillo.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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
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
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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