Son of Neptune, represented as a fish with a human head It is this sea-god that makes the roaring of the ocean by blowing through his shell Hear old Triton blow his wreathëd horn [hear the sea roar]" Wordsworth A Triton among the minnows The sun among inferior lights Luna inter minores ignes
Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices