NOUN | animal | edentate | primitive terrestrial / terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth |
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ADJECTIVE | all | edentate, edental, edentulate | having few if any teeth / teeth / teeth |
Meaning | Having few if any teeth / teeth / teeth. | |
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Example | "anteaters are edentate animals" | |
Synonyms | edental, edentulate | |
Broader | toothless | lacking teeth / teeth / teeth |
Spanish | edentado |
Meaning | Primitive terrestrial / terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America. | |
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Member of | Edentata, order Edentata | Order of mammals having few or no teeth including |
Narrower | anteater, New World anteater | Any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack / lack teeth and feed on ants and termites |
armadillo | burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates | |
megatherian, megatheriid, megatherian mammal | A large extinct ground sloth | |
mylodon | large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America | |
mylodontid | A variety of extinct edentate | |
sloth, tree sloth | Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America | |
Broader | placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta |
Spanish | edentado | |
Catalan | desdentat |
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