单词 | trilobite |
释义 | trilobiten. Palaeontology. An animal of the extinct group Trilobita, frequently found as fossils. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > trilobites > [noun] > member of trilobite1805 Trilobita1835 1805 T. Weaver tr. A. G. Werner Treat. Fossils iv. 142 Unknown are the originals of the Trilobites. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 195 A limestone, containing trilobites and other fossils of our mountain and transition limestones. 1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man iii. 44 The body was composed of numerous segments, each divided transversely into three lobes, whence they have received the name of Trilobites. 1909 Science 16 Apr. 630/2 Concerning the fauna of the Ozarkian, it is to be said that the trilobites and brachiopods, though all new, remind one strongly of preceding Cambrian types. 1949 W. Havighurst Signature of Time 23 There were the trilobites and gastropods that Julian had gathered. 1980 S. J. Gould Panda's Thumb (1982) xxxi. 317 You should have been around to see what the trilobites saw 550 million years ago. 2007 Daily News (New Plymouth, N.Z.) (Nexis) 26 Oct. 1 The oldest fossils on show are 500 million year-old trilobites found in northwest Nelson. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1805 |
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