edentate

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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 Hughes, Thomas

A parallel case is, perhaps, to be found in the hairy armadillo, an extremely versatile and intelligent animal, although only an edentate.

From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

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.

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

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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