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Edentate

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Noun

1. edentate

primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America

Adjective

2. edental, edentate, edentulate

having few if any teeth

Example Sentences:
'anteaters are edentate animals'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Edentate

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noun
1. 
any of the placental mammals that constitute the order Edentata, which inhabit tropical regions of Central and South America. The order includes anteaters, sloths, and armadillos
adjective
2. 
of, relating to, or belonging to the order Edentata

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Edentate

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adjective
1. 
without teeth
2. 
of the edentates
noun
3. 
any of an order (Edentata) of mammals having only molars or no teeth at all, as the sloths, armadillos, and anteaters

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Edentate

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adj.
1. Lacking teeth.
2. Of or belonging to the former order Edentata of mammals having few or no teeth, including the anteaters, armadillos, and sloths. These animals have been reclassified in the order Xenarthra.
n.
A member of the former order Edentata.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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