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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_187802" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_187802" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (n.) 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. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet. </p> <p> (2): (n.) Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander. </p> <p> (3): (n.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of [[Neptune]] and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. Some of the species are among the largest of all gastropods. Called also trumpet shell, and sea trumpet. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) Any one of numerous species of aquatic salamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species of the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A fabled sea demigod, the son of [[Neptune]] and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_63930" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_63930" /> == | ||
