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- noun Plural form of
edentate .
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The largest of the edentates was the Megatherium, a. clumsy ground sloth bigger than a rhinoceros.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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The rest of the mammalian group includes the marsupials, edentates, a single armadillo species, several rodents, primates, a few carnivores, and deer.
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The rest of the mammalian group includes the marsupials, edentates, several rodents, primates, a few carnivores, and deer.
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Accounts of the Mato Grosso (upper Xingu River) expedition by the Royal Society and Royal Geographical Society from 1967-69, mention that there are 46 genera of rodents including the largest of all, the capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), 52 genera of bats, 3 of marsupials and 11 of edentates.
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The rest of the mammalian group includes the marsupials, edentates, a single armadillo species, several rodents, primates, a few carnivores, and deer.
Trinidad mangroves 2007
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Here and there turkeys showed themselves with their milk and coffee-colored plumage; and peccaries, a sort of wild pig highly appreciated by lovers of venison, and agouties, which are the hares and rabbits of Central America; and tatous belonging to the order of edentates, with their scaly shells of patterns of mosaic.
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A similarly significant evidence of relationship is afforded by processes of the zygomatic region of the skull in certain edentates existing and extinct.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Aside from marsupials and New World monkeys, its most characteristic animals were edentates and very queer ungulates with no resemblance to those of any other continent.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916
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These were the ground-sloths, giant edentates, which reached an extraordinary development in the southern half of our hemisphere, where distant and diminutive relativestree-sloths, ant-eaters, armadillosstill live.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916
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The edentates not only included various ground-sloths, among them the megatherium, which was the size of an elephant, and the somewhat smaller mylodon, but also creatures as fantastic as those of a nightmare.
VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916
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