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trilobite (iou)



trilobite noun. M19.
[mod. Latin Trilobites former group name, from Greek tri- TRI- + lobos lobe (of the ear etc.) + -ITE1.]
Palaeontology. Any of numerous extinct marine arthropods of the subphylum Trilobita, which had a body divided into an anterior solid cephalon, a segmented thorax or trunk, and a posterior pygidium, and which are found abundantly as fossils in Palaeozoic rocks.
trilobitic adjective pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing trilobites M19.