Associations to the word «Edentata»

Wiktionary

EDENTATA, proper noun. A former taxonomic order of mammals with no front incisor teeth and poorly developed molars, including the armadillos, pangolins, aardvarks, etc.

Dictionary definition

EDENTATA, noun. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope