triton
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- n (Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon
- n the largest moon of Neptune
- n tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells
- n small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia
- By relentlessly hunting for a rare trumpet-shaped mollusk called the giant triton, some scientists say, shell collectors have taken a devastating toll of one of the crown-of-thorns .
- Protium's nucleus is the proton, deuterium's the denton, and tritium's (probably) the triton.