Definition of newt in English:
newt
noun njuːtn(j)ut
A small slender-bodied amphibian with lungs and a well-developed tail, typically spending its adult life on land and returning to water to breed.
Triturus and other genera, family Salamandridae: numerous species
- There are seven categories of fish, including the basking shark, and the same number of amphibians and reptiles such as turtles, toads, lizards and newts.
- The tail sweep of a tuna, a newt, a crocodile, or a whale is the leverage act of the backbone pushing water with the expanded tail.
- Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
- Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
- But some populations of garter snakes eat the newt willingly.
- The ‘true salamanders’ tend to be smooth skinned, while the newts are unlike all other salamanders in having rough skin that is not slimy.
- A pond is a little world in itself, he says, home to a dizzying array of creatures from frogs and newts to water boatmen, diving beetles, dragonflies and damselflies.
- Their steep slopes are the nearest thing to a rainforest in Europe, overflowing with springs and pools which are home to salamanders and newts.
- The sudden arrival of warm wet weather caused a mass night-time migration of frogs, newts and toads to deluge the centre in Barnes.
- Water provides a breeding place for frogs, toads, newts and dragonflies.
- Creating log piles may help to attract hedgehogs, and rockeries may attract frogs, newts and toads who usually spend winter on land.
- Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today.
- There are newts, toads, frogs and fish - all of which birds feed on.
- A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
- After initially seizing and beginning to swallow a newt, many snakes subsequently release the newt after as much as one hour of holding the prey item in the mouth and upper digestive tract.
- Viable woodlands are just as critical as clean waters for frogs, toads, turtles, salamanders, newts, and many species of reptiles.
- Among vertebrates, newts and other urodele amphibians show a remarkable capacity for regeneration.
- Forty-four adult male and 11 adult female red-spotted newts were collected from a private pond in Chenango County, New York, in late May 2000.
- The park was transformed from wasteland in 1997 and is home to a fascinating array of wildlife including frogs, toads, newts, dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies and birds.
- Rare species include the Pacific pond turtle, the California red-legged frog, the California newt, and the California tree frog.
Origin
Late Middle English: from an ewt (ewt from Old English efeta: see eft), interpreted (by wrong division) as a newt.
Like nickname, the name of the newt is an example of the phenomenon known as ‘wrong division’ or ‘metanalysis’, whereby people came to attach the last letter of one word to the beginning of the next. Originally the animal was an ewt. Ewt was an Old English term for a newt, as was eft. See also adder, apron
Rhymes
acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute
Definition of newt in US English:
newt
nounn(j)utn(y)o͞ot
A small slender-bodied amphibian with lungs and a well-developed tail, typically spending its adult life on land and returning to water to breed.
Notophthalmus, Taricha, and other genera, family Salamandridae: numerous species, including the red-spotted newt (N. viridescens viridescens) of eastern North America and the rough-skinned newt (T. granulosa) of the Pacific coast from southern Alaska to northern California
- A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
- Creating log piles may help to attract hedgehogs, and rockeries may attract frogs, newts and toads who usually spend winter on land.
- The sudden arrival of warm wet weather caused a mass night-time migration of frogs, newts and toads to deluge the centre in Barnes.
- Viable woodlands are just as critical as clean waters for frogs, toads, turtles, salamanders, newts, and many species of reptiles.
- Some amphibians we know today include frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
- But some populations of garter snakes eat the newt willingly.
- After initially seizing and beginning to swallow a newt, many snakes subsequently release the newt after as much as one hour of holding the prey item in the mouth and upper digestive tract.
- There are newts, toads, frogs and fish - all of which birds feed on.
- A pond is a little world in itself, he says, home to a dizzying array of creatures from frogs and newts to water boatmen, diving beetles, dragonflies and damselflies.
- Forty-four adult male and 11 adult female red-spotted newts were collected from a private pond in Chenango County, New York, in late May 2000.
- Water provides a breeding place for frogs, toads, newts and dragonflies.
- The ‘true salamanders’ tend to be smooth skinned, while the newts are unlike all other salamanders in having rough skin that is not slimy.
- Among vertebrates, newts and other urodele amphibians show a remarkable capacity for regeneration.
- The tail sweep of a tuna, a newt, a crocodile, or a whale is the leverage act of the backbone pushing water with the expanded tail.
- The park was transformed from wasteland in 1997 and is home to a fascinating array of wildlife including frogs, toads, newts, dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies and birds.
- Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
- Rare species include the Pacific pond turtle, the California red-legged frog, the California newt, and the California tree frog.
- Their steep slopes are the nearest thing to a rainforest in Europe, overflowing with springs and pools which are home to salamanders and newts.
- There are seven categories of fish, including the basking shark, and the same number of amphibians and reptiles such as turtles, toads, lizards and newts.
- Around 5,000 amphibian species, including frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders are thought to exist today.
Origin
Late Middle English: from an ewt ( ewt from Old English efeta: see eft), interpreted (by wrong division) as a newt.