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Definition of Triton

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon.

2. Noun. The largest moon of Neptune.

3. Noun. Tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells.

4. Noun. Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia.

Definition of Triton

1. n. A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell.

Definition of Triton

1. Proper noun. (Greek god) A god of the sea, son of Poseidon. ¹

2. Proper noun. (astronomy) The seventh moon of Neptune. ¹

3. Noun. (physics) the atomic nucleus of a tritium atom, consisting of a proton and two neutrons ¹

4. Noun. any of several marine gastropods of the family ''Cymatiidae'' having a pointed spiral shell ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Triton

1. a marine mollusk [n -S]

Medical Definition of Triton

1. The nucleus of a tritium atom, tritium ion. See: tritium. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triton

tritide tritides tritium tritium-breeding ratio tritium inventory tritium oxide tritiums trito- tritocaline tritocerebra

tritocerebral tritocerebrum tritolyl phosphates tritoma tritomas triton (current term) triton burnup triton tumour tritone tritones

tritonia tritonias tritons tritoqualine tritordeum tritoria tritorium tritovum tritoxide

Literary usage of Triton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1853)
"That there are only two species of triton in the midland counties of England. 2nd. That the tadpole of the triton remains in the water until the branchiae ..."

2. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias, James George Frazer (1898)
"4- the image the triton. On three coins of Tanagra (Fig. 4) of the time of the Antonines and Commodus, the youthful Dionysus is represented standing under a ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1851)
"The first experiments were performed on the tadpole of the triton. Exp. I.—He found the tadpole of the triton punctatus more tenacious of life than that of ..."

4. The Nasal Organ in Amphibia by George Marsh Higgins (1921)
"triton CRISTATUS The nasal capsule of triton cristatus differs in several points from that of either Amblystoma or Salamandra. ..."

5. Herodotus by Herodotus (1812)
"17* A triton.]—From various passages in the works of ... The god triton was a distinct personage, and reputed to be the son of Neptune and the nymph of ..."

6. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1891)
"î. Ad. St. S. Australia. k. rf ad. sk., var. /. Skeleton. »i. Bones of t]je bead. New South Wales. 2. Cacatua triton. Wallace Coll. Purchased. T. 0. ..."

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