edentate

• “The main reason people loose all their teeth i.e., become "edentate" is tooth decay, not gum disease, as this figure shows, and as the article explains:”

  The Marginal Tooth, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Everyone knows an edentate woman performing a one woman show, or giving a keynote speech, is inspiring to other dentally challenged people!”

  The Huffington Post: Ellen Snortland: Sicko Reprise, Please

• “Note 3: armadillo, any of a family (Dasypodidae) of burrowing edentate mammals found from the southern U.S. to Argentina and having the body and head encased in an armor of small bony plates.”

  Albert Collins Lyrics

• “Later, Jon Voight scales a cliff and wounds himself with his own crossbow while killing an innocent man he mistakes for the pervert's edentate sidekick.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Faith-Based Initiative

• “There are no endemic birds restricted to the llanos ecoregion, and only two mammals: the marsupial Monodelphis orinoci and the edentate Dasypus sabanicola.”

  Llanos

• “As would have been the case a million years ago, a typical colonist can expect to be edentate by the time he or she is thirty years old, having suffered many skull-cracking toothaches on the way.”

  Galapagos

• “He secured Brigham's everlasting gratitude by making him a very handsome false set, and performing the same service for all of his favorite, but edentate wives.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864

• “Obscure fusco-ferruginous, the antennæ and legs bright ferruginous; the head, thorax, and node of the petiole coarsely rugose; the eyes very prominent and glassy; the mandibles longitudinally but very delicately striated, their inner margin edentate; the thorax slightly narrowed behind.”

  Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology

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

  The Elements of Geology

• “A parallel case is, perhaps, to be found in the hairy armadillo, an extremely versatile and intelligent animal, although only an edentate.”

  The Naturalist in La Plata

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