trilobites

Noun

trilobite (plural trilobites)

1. An extinct arthropod of the class Trilobita, whose body had three large lobes.
   • When you look at a Precambrian trilobite in the lobby of a New York bank, it is difficult to speculate about its primeval environment.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 209