Trilobite Definition

trīlə-bīt
trilobites
noun
Any of a large class (Trilobita) of extinct marine arthropods having the body divided by two furrows into three parts, found as fossils in Paleozoic rocks.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Trilobite

Noun

Singular:
trilobite
Plural:
trilobites

Origin of Trilobite

  • New Latin Trilobītēs former class name from Greek trilobos three-lobed tri- tri- lobos lobe

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • tri- +"Ž lobe +"Ž -ite

    From Wiktionary

Trilobite Sentence Examples

  • Over 50 trilobites and a trilobite eye are illustrated.

  • Most trilobite fossils are only fragments of their exoskeletons.

  • Between the two and at the highest point of the arc, so far as morphological differentiation is concerned, stands the scorpion; near to it in the trilobite's direction (that is, on the ascending side) are Limulus and the Eurypterines - with a long gap, due to obliteration of the record, separating them from the trilobite.

  • Trilobitae (see Trilobite).

  • Wherever the Cambrian strata have been carefully studied it has now been found possible and convenient to arrange them into three series, each of which is characterized by a distinctive genus of trilobite.

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Words Starting With

TTRTRI

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