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ten has a trumpet made of a shell. Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. Wordsworth.

A superfluous or augmented fourth. [R.]

In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.

A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus).

To surround; to encircle, or encompass. That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton. Milton.

A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale).

al species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species.

e that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle.

Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. See Triton.

pet ash (Bot.), the trumpet creeper. [Eng.] -- Trumpet conch (Zoöl.), a trumpet shell, or triton. -- Trumpet creeper (Bot.), an American climbing plant (Tecoma radicans) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also trumpet flower, and in England trumpet ash. -- Trumpet fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The be…

f amphibians having the tail well developed and often long. It comprises the salamanders, tritons, and allied animals.

Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders; a triton.