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Definition of Edental
1. Adjective. Having few if any teeth. "Anteaters are edentate animals"
Definition of Edental
1. a. See Edentate,
Definition of Edental
1. belonging to a toothless order of mammals [adj]
Medical Definition of Edental
1.
See Edentate.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Edental
Literary usage of Edental
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America by George Brettingham Sowerby, William Lonsdale, Edward Forbes, Charles Darwin (1897)
"... found in so perfect a state that they were long used as gate-posts: the Jesuit
Falkner found here the dermal armour of some gigantic edental quadruped. ..."
2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"Fifthly, another gigantic edental quadruped. Sixthly, a large animal, with an
osseous coat in compartments, very like that of an armadillo. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Fifthly, another gigantic edental quadruped. Sixthly, a large animal, with an
osseous coat in compartments, very like that of an armadillo. ..."
4. Journal of Researches Into the Geology & Natural History of the Various by Charles Darwin (1908)
"Fourthly, the Mylodon Darwinii, a closely related genus of little inferior size.
Fifthly, another gigantic edental quadruped. Sixthly, a large animal, ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1839)
"... and in the separate tympanic bone the same affinity to time Orycteropus as
has been already noticed in the more bulky extinct edental. ..."
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