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語源

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

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈtɹaɪ.ləˌbaɪt/

名詞

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.

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