triton

English Thesaurus

1. small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	salamander,
definition	:	any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	common newt, triturus vulgaris,
definition	:	small semiaquatic salamander (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	notophthalmus viridescens, red eft,
definition	:	red terrestrial form of a common North American newt (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	pacific newt,
definition	:	any of several rough-skinned newts found in western North America (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	eft,
definition	:	a newt in its terrestrial stage of development (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family salamandridae, salamandridae,
definition	:	salamanders (noun.animal)

2. tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	seasnail,
definition	:	any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	cymatiidae, family cymatiidae,
definition	:	tritons (noun.animal)

3. the largest moon of Neptune (noun.object)

instance hypernym	:	moon,
definition	:	any natural satellite of a planet (noun.object)

4. (Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon (noun.person)

instance hypernym	:	greek deity,
definition	:	a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks (noun.person)

domain category	:	greek mythology,
definition	:	the mythology of the ancient Greeks (noun.group)