"triton" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

(Greek mythology) a sea god;
Son of Poseidon (synset 109596323)
referred to in: greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks

is an instance of: greek deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks
The largest moon of Neptune (synset 109485361)
is an instance of: moon - any natural satellite of a planet
Tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells (synset 101950376)
is a type of: seasnail - any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids

belongs to: cymatiidae, family cymatiidae - tritons
Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia (synset 101632925)
is a type of: salamander - any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed
subtypes:
- common newt, triturus vulgaris - small semiaquatic salamander
- notophthalmus viridescens, red eft - red terrestrial form of a common North American newt
- pacific newt - any of several rough-skinned newts found in western North America
- eft - a newt in its terrestrial stage of development
belongs to: family salamandridae, salamandridae - salamanders

same as: newt