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Definition of Order Edentata
1. Noun. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Edentate, Suborder Xenarthra, Xenarthra, Family Mylodontidae, Mylodontidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Edentata
Literary usage of Order Edentata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... to the order Edentata, must be considered as yet very obscure. ... failure to
define the order Edentata. It was the consideration of such forms as ..."
2. Medical and Physical Researches: Or, Original Memoirs in Medicine, Surgery by Richard Harlan (1835)
"... of the order Edentata. ON the 18th December, 1824, Mr. William Colesberry of
Philadelphia, presented to the Philadelphia Museum of Natural History the ..."
3. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"36649 a. An imperfect tympanic ; same locality. Brown Collection. Presented by Prof.
Sir B. Owen, KCB, 1859. Order EDENTATA. ..."
4. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introduction on by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"... and the various species of Ant-eaters (the latter constituting Owen's group
of the Edentata). The order Edentata is but sparingly represented in modern ..."
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