Definitions for edentate

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edentate e·den·tate

Spelling: [ee-den-teyt]

IPA: /iˈdɛn teɪt/

Edentate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in edentate (adeeentt).

Definitions for edentate

noun

1. an edentate mammal.

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the Edentata, an order of New World mammals characterized by the absence of incisors and canines in the arrangement of teeth and comprising the armadillos, the sloths, and the South American anteaters.
2. toothless.

Origin of edentate

1820-30; Latin ēdentātus deprived of teeth, equivalent to ē- e-¹ + dent- (stem of dēns) tooth + -ātus -ate

Examples for edentate

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

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

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

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

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