edentate

Noun
  1. Primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth;
    Of tropical Central America and South America (synset 102456242)
    is a type of: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
    subtypes:
    • armadillo - burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
    • sloth, tree sloth - any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
    • megatherian, megatherian mammal, megatheriid - a large extinct ground sloth
    • mylodontid - a variety of extinct edentate
    • mylodon - large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America
    • anteater, new world anteater - any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites
    belongs to: edentata, order edentata - order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos
Adjective
  1. Having few if any teeth (synset 302448944)
    "anteaters are edentate animals"
    similar to: toothless - lacking teeth
    same as: edental, edentulate

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