trilobitic

Variant of trilobite

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

Origin: < ModL Trilobites, Trilobita: see tri-, lobe, -ite

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