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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A division of edentate mammals, including insectivorous forms, most of which are effodient or fossorial, as the armadillos, anteaters, aardvarks, and pangolins: a term now superseded by Fodientia, and restricted to the African fossorial ant-eaters, as the aardvarks.

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