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Trilobite

//ˈtɹaɪ.ləˌbaɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An extinct arthropod of the class Trilobita, whose body had three large lobes.

    "When you look at a Precambrian trilobite in the lobby of a New York bank, it is difficult to speculate about its primeval environment."

  2. 2
    an extinct arthropod that was abundant in Paleozoic times; had an exoskeleton divided into three parts wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Trilobita. By surface analysis, tri- (“three”) + lobe + -ite (“mineral, individual”), literally “three-lober”.

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