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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various chiefly tropical predatory marine gastropod mollusks of the family Ranellidae, having a pointed, spirally twisted, often colorfully marked shell.
- noun The nucleus of tritium, consisting of two neutrons and one proton.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin Trītōn, Triton (from representations of the sea god holding a conch shell); see Triton.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[trit(ium) + –on.]
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