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Adjective edentate has 1 sense

edental, edentate, edentulate - having few if any teeth; "anteaters are edentate animals"
Antonym: toothed (indirect, via toothless)

Noun edentate has 1 sense

edentate - primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America
--₁ is a kind of placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
--₁ is a member of Edentata, order Edentata
--₁ has particulars:
armadillo; sloth, tree sloth; megatherian, megatheriid, megatherian mammal; mylodontid; mylodon; anteater, New World anteater