newt

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun newt has 1 sense

newt(n = noun.animal) triton - small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia; Array

is a member of family salamandridae, salamandridae

is a kind of salamander

has particulars: common newt, triturus vulgaris, notophthalmus viridescens, red eft, pacific newt, eft

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CIDE DICTIONARY

newt, n. [OE. ewt, evete, AS. efete, with n prefixed, an ewt being understood as a newt. Cf. Eft.].

Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

newt, n. any of various small amphibians, esp. of the genus Triturus, having a well-developed tail.

Etymology

ME f. ewt, with n from an (cf. NICKNAME): var. of evet EFT

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