Edentate

The main reason people loose all their teeth i.e., become "edentate" is tooth decay, not gum disease, as this figure shows, and as the article explains: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Everyone knows an edentate woman performing a one woman show, or giving a keynote speech, is inspiring to other dentally challenged people! ❋ Ellen Snortland (2010)

Note 3: armadillo, any of a family (Dasypodidae) of burrowing edentate mammals found from the southern U.S. to Argentina and having the body and head encased in an armor of small bony plates. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Later, Jon Voight scales a cliff and wounds himself with his own crossbow while killing an innocent man he mistakes for the pervert's edentate sidekick. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are no endemic birds restricted to the llanos ecoregion, and only two mammals: the marsupial Monodelphis orinoci and the edentate Dasypus sabanicola. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As would have been the case a million years ago, a typical colonist can expect to be edentate by the time he or she is thirty years old, having suffered many skull-cracking toothaches on the way. ❋ Vonnegut, Kurt (1985)

He secured Brigham's everlasting gratitude by making him a very handsome false set, and performing the same service for all of his favorite, but edentate wives. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

The Glyptodon was a mailed edentate, eight feet long, resembling the little armadillo. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

A parallel case is, perhaps, to be found in the hairy armadillo, an extremely versatile and intelligent animal, although only an edentate. ❋ Unknown (1881)

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. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)

This _quadrumane_ without hands -- this _edentate_ whose molars are preceded by magnificent canines -- this enigma of nature, created for the confusion and despair of all classification -- does, I must in all humility confess, completely upset the rule I laid down so stringently when speaking of the horse, as to the objects for which canine teeth were framed. ❋ Jean Mac�� (1854)

[156] _Echidna aculeata_, or _E. hystrix_, the porcupine ant-eater, a curious edentate, spine-covered quadruped, closely allied to the still stranger _Ornithorhynchus_, the duck-bill. ❋ Adam White (1848)

I tried to call to him to move; but how could a poor edentate like myself articulate a word? ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

Hell, lotsa people gots ocicats but there's only one place to go if you want to see a pole dance by a leprous edentate! ❋ Unknown (2009)

To lose one’s spoon would be almost as serious as it is for an edentate person to lose his set of false teeth.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

a jaguar, or the stroke of his paw, would fracture an ant-eater's skull before it had time to turn round; for the movements of this edentate quadruped are as sluggish as those of the toothed carnivorous tyrant are rapid. ❋ Adam White (1848)

Henry edently sent messages to all his friends just to see who and how many would respond. That didn't go so well. The [mad man's] son was [edent] to find a cure for his [father's] illness. Unless we search with a certain edentness, we may give up before finding an answer. I think Trump has that edent quality we all need to learn from, regardless the rest. ❋ Linkford D Mathambo (2017)