TRI'TON, noun In mythology, a fabled sea demi-god, supposed to be the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as half man and half fish. 1. A genus of the molluscal order of worms. 2. A bird of the West Indies, famous for its notes.
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