Lexicographical Neighbors of Tritonia
Literary usage of Tritonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical by James Emerson Tennent (1860)
"Excepting the faint clink of the tritonia arbo- ... My two living tritonia,
contained in a large clear colourless glass cylinder, filled with pure sea water ..."
2. The Annals of Horticulture (1849)
"tritonia fenestrata (open-flowered or windowed tritonia ... I tritonia fucata (stained
tritonia).—This has red and yellow flowers, and blooms in May and ..."
3. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (1826)
"Sounds produced under water by the tritonia arbores- cens.—About a month ago I
happened to place together, in a crystal jar filled with sea-water, ..."
4. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1848)
"tritonia AUREA—GOLDEN tritonia. THIS very beautiful flowering plant was discovered
by our highly esteemed friend Mr. James Backhouse, nurseryman, of York. ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"SPARAXIS (Greek word referring to the torn or lacerated spathes, a character
which distinguishes this genus from tritonia). ..."
6. A Manual of the Mollusca: A Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward (1868)
"... lingual membrane with 1 central and numerous lateral teeth ; orifices on the
right side. tritonia, Cuvier. Example, T. plebeia, PI. XIII., Fig. ..."
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