edentate
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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 Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
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 Robert Armitage Sterndale
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 Thomas Hughes
The Glyptodon was a mailed edentate, eight feet long, resembling the little armadillo.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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 W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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