Trĭ'ton

. [Lat. Triton, Gr. Τρίτων.] 1. (Myth.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish, the tail being forked in a lunar form. Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. Wordsworth. 2. (Zoöl.) (a.) A genus of gasteropodous mollusks, the shells of which have a series of prominences or ridges, like swollen veins, running up the spire at irregular distances. Baird. (b.) A genus of batrachian reptiles, or aquatic salamanders, comprehending numerous species.