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newt

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newt  (nt, nyt)
n.
Any of several small, slender, often brightly colored salamanders of the European genus Triturus or the North American genera Notophthalmus and Taricha, living chiefly on land but becoming aquatic during the breeding season.

[Middle English neute, from a neute, alteration of an eute, variant of evete, from Old English efete.]

newt
Noun
a small amphibious creature with a long slender body and tail and short legs [mistaken division of an ewt; ewt from Old English efeta]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.newtnewt - small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia
salamander - any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed
common newt, Triturus vulgaris - small semiaquatic salamander
Notophthalmus viridescens, red eft - red terrestrial form of a common North American newt
Pacific newt - any of several rough-skinned newts found in western North America
eft - a newt in its terrestrial stage of development
Translations
newt [njuːt] ntritón m

newt [njuːt] ntriton m

newt [njuːt] nWassermolch m

newt [njuːt] ntritone m

newt
n newt [njuːt]
a type of small animal which lives on land and in water. paddavis سَمَنْدَل الماء: حَيوان بَرْمائي тритон čolek salamander der Wassermolch σαλαμάνδρα tritón vesilik سوسمار ابى vesilisko triton סָלַמנַדרָה सरटिका daždevnjak tarajos gőte kadal kambsalamandra tritone いもり ?동물? 영원(ƒƒ) tritonas tritons neut watersalamander salamander traszka tritão triton, sala­man­dră de apă тритон mlok pupek daždev vattenödla สัตวประเภทจิ้งจกซึ่งอาศัยอยู่ได้ทั้งบนบกและในน้ำ su kertenkelesi, semender 蠑螈 тритон ايک قسم کا آبی جانور جو خشکي ميں بھي رہتا ہے con sa giông 蝾螈


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"I never sign a paper without reading it first," said Newt man.
This general absence of frogs, toads, and newts on so many oceanic islands cannot be accounted for by their physical conditions; indeed it seems that islands are peculiarly well fitted for these animals; for frogs have been introduced into Madeira, the Azores, and Mauritius, and have multiplied so as to become a nuisance.
I have seen them (ladies, I am sorry to say, as well as gentlemen) go out, day after day, for example, with empty pill-boxes, and catch newts, and beetles, and spiders, and frogs, and come home and stick pins through the miserable wretches, or cut them up, without a pang of remorse, into little pieces.
 
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