trilobite

English

a trilobite fossil

Etymology

tri- + lobe + -ite

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.ləˌbaɪt/
  • (file)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁi.lɔ.bit/
  • (file)

Noun

trilobite m (plural trilobites)

  1. trilobite

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

trilobite m (plural trilobiti)

  1. trilobite

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾi.loˈbi.t͡ʃi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /tɾi.loˈbi.te/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɾi.luˈbi.tɨ/ [tɾi.luˈβi.tɨ]

  • Hyphenation: tri‧lo‧bi‧te

Noun

trilobite f (plural trilobites)

  1. European Portuguese standard spelling of trilobita.
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