1) Armadillo or anteater 2) Attendee lacking teeth 3) Edental 4) Edentulate 5) Having few if any teeth 6) Lacking teeth 7) Like sloths or armadillos 8) Sloth or armadillo 9) Toothless Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/edentate
(from the article `avoidance behaviour`) South American toothless animals (edentates) such as anteaters are probably survivors of a comparable early development in mammals. The armour of ... Pangolins were once grouped with the true anteaters, sloths, and armadillos in the order Edentata, mainly because of superficial likenesses to Sout... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/10
E·den'tate adjective 1. Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf. 2. (Zoology) Belonging to the Edentata. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/8