Triton
pronunciation
How to pronounce Triton in British English: UK
How to pronounce Triton in American English: US
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- Noun:
- tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells
- small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia
Word Origin
- Triton
- minor sea god, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, from Latin Triton, from Greek Triton, cognate with Old Irish triath (genitive trethan) "sea."
Example
- 1. Triton may be the coldest place in our solar system .
- 2. The triton light has water from how many different seas ?
- 3. She may be the key to triton 's undoing .
- 4. Just as the triton trumpet snail helps protect the coral reef .
- 5. Mitsubishi makes the triton and l200 strada pickup-truck models and the lancer sedan at its laem chabang plant .