edentate

No hylid genus is edentate, and none has either T-shaped terminal phalanges or the unusual dorsal spinules.

Armadillo, rm-a-dil′o, n. a small American edentate quadruped, having its body armed with bands of bony plates:—pl.

The Glyptodon was a mailed edentate, eight feet long, resembling the little armadillo.

Edentate animals, such as the sloth, are without teeth, or at least are without the incisors.

I observe that Rudolphi distinctly refers to this edentate as the tamandua.