| edentate | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. edentate | primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America. |
| ~ eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal | mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials. |
| ~ edentata, order edentata | order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos. |
| ~ armadillo | burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates. |
| ~ tree sloth, 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. |
| ~ new world anteater, anteater | any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites. |
| adj. | 2. edental, edentate, edentulate | having few if any teeth.; "anteaters are edentate animals" |
| ~ toothless | lacking teeth.; "most birds are toothless"; "a toothless old crone" |
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