Tri|ton

Tri|ton «TRY tuhn», noun.

1. a) Greek Mythology. a sea god, son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, having the head and body of a man and the tail of a fish and carrying a trumpet made of a conch shell. b) (later) any one of a group of minor sea gods by whom Poseidon and the other major sea gods were served.

2. the largest satellite of the planet Neptune.

tri|ton¹ «TRY tuhn», noun.

1. any one of a family of large marine gastropods, especially any one of a group having a brightly colored, spiral, trumpet-shaped shell.

2. the shell of such an animal.

╂[< Triton]

tri|ton² «TRY ton», noun.

the nucleus of a tritium atom.

╂[< trit (ium) + -on, as in electron]