edentate

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

From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.

To lose one’s spoon would be almost as serious as it is for an edentate person to lose his set of false teeth.”

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

The palatine is small, curved anteriorly and edentate.

From The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by león, Juan R.

They are however without teeth only in the front of the jaw in all, but with a few molars in some, the Indian forms however are truly edentate, having no teeth at all.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

Ant-eaters, a family of edentate mammals, have a tubular mouth with a small aperture, and a long tongue covered with a viscid secretion, which they thrust into the ant-hills and then withdraw covered with ants.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin