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Newt   /nut/   Listen
Newt

noun
1.
Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia.  Synonym: triton.



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California newt
Pacific newt
common newt
rough-skinned newt


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"Newt" Quotes from Famous Books



... over her face; but the newt move was to put her arms round Prim's neck and for a moment her head on Prim's shoulder. Then she sprang up and hurriedly shook her dress into ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner
... brown and orange, with a gold crest along its back like an iguana, is found in shallow ponds, also the smooth newt. These efts, or evvets, as the people call them, are regarded with horror by the peasantry. The children speak of having seen one as if it were a crocodile; and an abscess in the arm has been ascribed to having picked up an "evvet in a bundle ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge


Words linked to "Newt" :   Salamandridae, eft, common newt, salamander, Triturus vulgaris, rough-skinned newt, Notophthalmus viridescens, triton, Pacific newt, family Salamandridae, red eft, California newt


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