edentate
English Thesaurus
1. primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America (noun.animal)
hyponym | : | armadillo, |
definition | : | burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | sloth, tree sloth, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | mylodontid, |
definition | : | a variety of extinct edentate (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | mylodon, |
definition | : | large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | anteater, new world anteater, |
definition | : | any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites (noun.animal) |
member meronym | : | edentata, order edentata, |
definition | : | order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos (noun.animal) |
2. having few if any teeth (adj.all)
similar | : | toothless, |
definition | : | lacking teeth (adj.all) |
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