edentate

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants.

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

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.

The edentates not only included various ground-sloths, among them the megatherium, which was the size of an elephant, and the somewhat smaller mylodon, but also creatures as fantastic as those of a nightmare.

The palatine is small, curved anteriorly and edentate.