trilobite
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trilobite (plural trilobites)
- An extinct arthropod of the class Trilobita, whose body had three large lobes.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 209:
- When you look at a Precambrian trilobite in the lobby of a New York bank, it is difficult to speculate about its primeval environment.
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member of the class Trilobita
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French edit
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trilobite m (plural trilobites)
Further reading edit
- “trilobite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
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trilobite m (plural trilobiti)
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tri‧lo‧bi‧te
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trilobite f (plural trilobites)
- European Portuguese standard spelling of trilobita.