trilobite

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.ləˌbaɪt/

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trilobite (plural trilobites)

1. 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.

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.lɔ.bit/

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trilobite m (plural trilobites)

1. trilobite

• “trilobite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /tri.loˈbi.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: tri‧lo‧bì‧te

trilobite m (plural trilobiti)

1. trilobite

• Hyphenation: tri‧lo‧bi‧te

trilobite f (plural trilobites)

1. European Portuguese standard form of trilobita