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Definition of trumpet shell

trumpet shell
Triton Tri"ton, n. [L., fr. Gr.?.] (Gr. Myth.) 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. Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. --Wordsworth. 2. (Zo["o]l.) 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. 3. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Meaning of trumpet shell from wikipedia

- also known as a "seas**** horn" or "s**** trumpet", is a wind instrument that is made from a conch, the s**** of several different kinds of sea snails...
- Neolithic era. The earliest of these primordial trumpets were adapted from animal horns and sea s****, and were common throughout Europe, Africa, India...
- sacred chank or shankha s**** (Turbinella pyrum) and other Turbinella species in the family Turbinellidae. The Triton's trumpet (family Charoniidae) may...
- known as "dung-dkar". The Triton s**** also known as "Triton's trumpet" Charonia tritonis which is used as a trumpet in Melanesian and Polynesian culture...
- The Ranellidae, common name the triton s**** or tritons, are a taxonomic family of small to very large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks...
- Syrinx aru****, common name the Australian trumpet or false trumpet, is a species of extremely large sea snail measuring up to 75 cm long and weighing...
- paralytic s****fish poisoning with very similar symptoms and signs. The trumpet s**** Charonia sauliae has been implicated in food poisonings, and evidence...
- preserver deity Vishnu. It is still used as a trumpet in Hindu ritual, and in the past was used as a war trumpet. According to Arunava Bose, "The shankha is...
- for a deaf or hard-of-hearing individual. Ear trumpets were made of sheet metal, silver, wood, snail s**** or animal horns. They have largely been replaced...
- initially split into two teams of ten: Foa Foa and Galu, both meaning "trumpet s****" and "wave" in Samoan respectively. The merged tribe, formed on day...