— Tritonic /truy ton"ik/ , adj.
/truyt"n/ , n.
1. Class. Myth. a son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, represented as having the head and trunk of a man and the tail of a fish, and as using a conch-shell trumpet.
2. Astron. a moon of Neptune.
3. ( l.c. ) any of various marine gastropods of the family Cymatiidae, having a large, spiral, often beautifully colored shell.
4. ( l.c. ) the shell of a triton.