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Triton

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Noun

1. triton

(Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon

2. triton

the largest moon of Neptune

3. triton

tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells

4. newt, triton

small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Triton

see synonyms of triton
noun
any of various chiefly tropical marine gastropod molluscs of the genera Charonia, Cymatium, etc, having large beautifully-coloured spiral shells
noun
physics
a nucleus of an atom of tritium, containing two neutrons and one proton
noun Greek mythology
1. 
a sea god, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, depicted as having the upper parts of a man with a fish's tail and holding a trumpet made from a conch shell
2. 
one of a class of minor sea deities
noun
the largest satellite of the planet Neptune; discovered in 1846, it has a thin nitrogen atmosphere and a retrograde orbit; diameter: 2700 km

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Triton

see synonyms of triton
noun
1.  Greek Mythology
a sea god, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, represented as having the head and upper body of a man and the tail of a fish and as carrying a conch-shell trumpet
2.  Greek Mythology
one of many attendants of the sea gods
3. 
the largest of Neptune's eight satellites
4.  [t-]
a. 
any of a family (Cymatiidae) of large sea snails with a long, spiral shell, often brightly colored
b. 
the shell
noun
the nucleus of the tritium atom containing one proton and two neutrons, used as a projectile in nuclear reactions

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Triton

see synonyms of triton
n.
Any of various chiefly tropical predatory marine gastropod mollusks of the family Ranellidae, having a pointed, spirally twisted, often colorfully marked shell.
n.
The nucleus of tritium, consisting of two neutrons and one proton.
n.
1. Greek Mythology A god of the sea, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, portrayed as having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish.
2. A satellite of Neptune.

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