Crossword-Solution: EDENTATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Edentate | a. | Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf. |
| Edentate | a. | Belonging to the Edentata. |
| Edentate | n. | One of the Edentata. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| EDENTATE | anagram | ATTENDEE |
We have 16 clues for the answer “EDENTATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Animal without incisors | 1 answer |
| Armadillo or anteater | 1 answer |
| DESTITUTE of teeth | 1 answer |
| Lacking teeth, as the anteaters. | 1 answer |
| Like sloths or armadillos | 1 answer |
| Sloth or armadillo | 1 answer |
| Toothless, as an anteater. | 1 answer |
| Toothless, as the sloth or anteater. | 1 answer |
| Without teeth, as anteaters. | 1 answer |
| Without teeth, as armadillos, sloths, etc. | 1 answer |
| of tropical Central America and South America | 1 answer |
| primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth | 1 answer |
| Without teeth. | 3 answers |
| Sloth, e.g. | 4 answers |
| Lacking teeth | 4 answers |
| Toothless | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EDENTATE (5)
Abbott in the alluvial deposits of the Delaware and those recently announced in Nevada,45 prove the contemporaneity of men like ourselves with the great edentate and pachydermatous mammals, which were the most characteristic creatures of the American fauna.
They are however without teeth only in the front of the jaw in all, but with a few molars in some, the Indian forms however are truly edentate, having no teeth at all.
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.
Etym: [D., earth-pig.] (Zoöl.) Defn: An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa.
Etym: [Native name.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1955–2005).