Anteaters are edentate animals. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Everyone knows an edentate woman performing a one woman show, or giving a keynote speech, is inspiring to other dentally challenged people!. From Wordnik.com. [Ellen Snortland: Sicko Reprise, Please] Reference
There are no endemic birds restricted to the llanos ecoregion, and only two mammals: the marsupial Monodelphis orinoci and the edentate Dasypus sabanicola. From Wordnik.com. [Llanos] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
Note 3: armadillo, any of a family (Dasypodidae) of burrowing edentate mammals found from the southern U.S. to Argentina and having the body and head encased in an armor of small bony plates. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Collins Lyrics] Reference
As would have been the case a million years ago, a typical colonist can expect to be edentate by the time he or she is thirty years old, having suffered many skull-cracking toothaches on the way. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos]
Obscure fusco-ferruginous, the antennæ and legs bright ferruginous; the head, thorax, and node of the petiole coarsely rugose; the eyes very prominent and glassy; the mandibles longitudinally but very delicately striated, their inner margin edentate; the thorax slightly narrowed behind. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The Glyptodon was a mailed edentate, eight feet long, resembling the little armadillo. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
I tried to call to him to move; but how could a poor edentate like myself articulate a word?. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
A parallel case is, perhaps, to be found in the hairy armadillo, an extremely versatile and intelligent animal, although only an edentate. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
A jaguar, or the stroke of his paw, would fracture an ant-eater's skull before it had time to turn round; for the movements of this edentate quadruped are as sluggish as those of the toothed carnivorous tyrant are rapid. From Wordnik.com. [Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.] Reference
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