Definition of Order edentata

1. Noun. Order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos.

Exact synonyms: Edentata
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Edentate, Suborder Xenarthra, Xenarthra, Family Mylodontidae, Mylodontidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Edentata

order Cydippida
order Cydippidea
order Cypriniformes
order Decapoda
order Dermaptera
order Dermoptera
order Diapensiales
order Dicranales
order Dictyoptera
order Dinocerata
order Dinoflagellata
order Dinornithiformes
order Diptera
order Discocephali
order Ebenales
order Edentata
order Embiodea
order Embioptera
order Endomycetales
order Entomophthorales
order Ephemerida
order Ephemeroptera
order Equisetales
order Ericales
order Erysiphales
order Eubacteriales
order Eubryales
order Euphausiacea
order Eurotiales
order Eurypterida

Literary usage of Order edentata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... to the order Edentata, must be considered as yet very obscure. ... failure to define the order Edentata. It was the consideration of such forms as ..."

2. Medical and Physical Researches: Or, Original Memoirs in Medicine, Surgery by Richard Harlan (1835)
"... of the order edentata. ON the 18th December, 1824, Mr. William Colesberry of Philadelphia, presented to the Philadelphia Museum of Natural History the ..."

3. Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia in the British Museum, (Natural History) by Richard Lydekker (1887)
"36649 a. An imperfect tympanic ; same locality. Brown Collection. Presented by Prof. Sir B. Owen, KCB, 1859. Order EDENTATA. ..."

4. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introduction on by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"... and the various species of Ant-eaters (the latter constituting Owen's group of the Edentata). The order Edentata is but sparingly represented in modern ..."

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