trilobite
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.ləˌbaɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]member of the class Trilobita
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]trilobite m (plural trilobites)
Further reading
[edit]- “trilobite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]trilobite m (plural trilobiti)
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: tri‧lo‧bi‧te
Noun
[edit]trilobite f (plural trilobites)
- European Portuguese standard spelling of trilobita.
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