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Definition of Tritons
1. triton [n] - See also: triton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tritons
Literary usage of Tritons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of Animals: Containing Brief Descriptions of the Animals by Sanborn Tenney (1874)
"It is yery useful to the farmer and gardener, destroying great numbers of insects«,
SALAMANDERS, tritons, SIRENS, &c. Salamanders are batrachians which have ..."
2. Archives de biologie (1880)
"... (tritons ET AXOLOTL). II. FRACTIONNEMENT DE L'CEUF DES BATRACIENS ; PAR OH.
... (tritons et ..."
3. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"... some noisy young tritons are splashing at the end of a tumbledown pier, but
their soprano voices only emphasize the quiet ; vessels are flitting on the ..."
4. The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of Living by Julia Ellen Rogers (1908)
"... creatures from the staid adult tritons. The metamorphosis occurs some time
after hatching. "The tritons are shells of much more solid structure than the ..."
5. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... the four corners of the pedestal tritons holding shells which spouted water.
This was erected by Cavendish Weedon, of Lincoln's Inn, but in 1817 it was ..."
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