Edentates [noun]

No hylid genus is edentate, and none has either T-shaped terminal phalanges or the unusual dorsal spinules.

Armadillo, rm-a-dil′o, n. a small American edentate quadruped, having its body armed with bands of bony plates:—pl.

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

Edentate animals, such as the sloth, are without teeth, or at least are without the incisors.

I observe that Rudolphi distinctly refers to this edentate as the tamandua.

The simplest type is a smooth edentate surface where the two valves meet and are held together only by the strong ligament.

The fore-limb is decidedly Edentate-like; but it is the foot which presents the strongest likenesses to that order.

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

An example of this form is furnished by another Edentate, Tatusia peba, the nine-banded armadillo (Fig. 358).