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Trilobite   Listen
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Trilobite  n.  (Paleon.) Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.






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"Trilobite" Quotes from Famous Books



... thee the sinuous track By the slow-moving Annelid made, Or the Trilobite that, farther back, In the old Potsdam sandstone was laid; Thou shalt see, in his Jurassic tomb, The Plesiosaurus embalmed; In his Oolitic prime and his ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte

... of mine, a trilobite Had gathered in his youth, When trilobites were trilobites, This ...
— Greybeards at Play • G. K. Chesterton



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