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edentate

edentate adjective: lacking teeth.

Adjective

edentate (not comparable)

  1. Lacking teeth.
    • an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf
  2. Belonging to the Edentata.

Noun

edentate (plural edentates)

  1. Any mammal that has few or no teeth, but especially the anteaters, armadillos, and sloths of the former order Edentata.

edentate meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

edentate in Tamil

பல்லிலி, பற்களற்ற சில பாலூட்டி விலங்குகள், பொக்கை

edentate in Urdu

پوپلا, بغیر دانت والا

edentate in Kannada

ಹಲ್ಲಿಲ್ಲದ, ಹಲ್ಲಿಲಿ

Forms of edentate

pluraledentates

Origin of edentate

Borrowed from New Latin edentatus.

Questions about edentate

What does edentate mean?
Edentate means lacking teeth.
What is edentate in Tamil?
Edentate in Tamil is பல்லிலி, பற்களற்ற சில பாலூட்டி விலங்குகள், பொக்கை. See Edentate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is edentate?
Edentate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near edentate in the dictionary

  1. Edensor Park
  2. Edensors
  3. edental
  4. edentalous
  5. edentals
  6. edentate
  7. edentated
  8. edentates
  9. edentation
  10. Edenton
  11. edentulate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: edentate (page history and authors); edentate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); edentate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); edentate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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