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tri·ton¹

(tr

n) KEY

NOUN:

Any of various chiefly tropical marine gastropod mollusks of the family Cymatiidae, having a pointed, spirally twisted, often colorfully marked shell.

ETYMOLOGY:
Latin Trtn, Triton (from representations of the sea god holding a conch shell) ; see Triton

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