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

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

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

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

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

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

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