Definitions for edentates

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edentates e·den·tate

Spelling: [ee-den-teyt]

IPA: /iˈdɛn teɪt/

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

You can make 250 anagrams from letters in edentates (adeeenstt).

Definitions for edentates

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 edentates

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

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.

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

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

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