Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small, often brightly colored, aquatic or semiaquatic salamanders of the family Salamandridae of North America and Eurasia that typically breed in water but spend part of their lives on land.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tailed batrachian; an animal of the genus Triton in a broad sense, as T. cristatus, the great warty or crested newt, or T. (Lissotriton) punctatus, the common smooth newt; an eft; an asker; a triton.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small
lizard -likeamphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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I am living in Georgia and am embarrased to even say that with newt living here too. newt is not a liked man here, and I have not met anyone yet that has anything good to say about this crook. newt LIES!!!!!
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The newt is used to replace a missing young Queen Victoria who has gone AWOL.
More Steampunkery Still! wendigomountain 2009
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These people are fictional characters parading around and pretending to be newcasters. beck calls himself a comedian, bill was a trash tv reporter, newt is a disgraced politician and the rest are just has beens who can't see the truth or just don't care to.
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I don't know, maybe its set in dinosaur times. simmy25 newt is set nowadays
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July 16th, 2009 2: 57 pm ET he needs to change his name. we just can't have a president mitt. what if newt is the vp? we'd have a mitt and a newt on the same ticket. we'd be the laughing stock of the world.
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One-thirtieth of the TTX normally found in a T. granulosa newt is enough to kill the average human being.
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Anything that the dying republicans can do at this point, including thrashing around and digging up newt from the grave, while their Dear Leader’s days in office disappear after every sundown, they will do.
House Republicans Continue Vacation Protest - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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A newt is a salamander commonly found in or near freshwater in Africa.
tbtabby commented on the word newt
I have a pet newt named Tiny. I named him Tiny because he's my newt.
February 22, 2009
bilby commented on the word newt
*groan*
February 22, 2009
dontcry commented on the word newt
"She turned me into a newt."
-Monty Python's Holy Grail
February 22, 2009
plethora commented on the word newt
"...I got better."
February 23, 2009
dontcry commented on the word newt
Yes!
February 23, 2009