edentate

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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

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

He secured Brigham's everlasting gratitude by making him a very handsome false set, and performing the same service for all of his favorite, but edentate wives.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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