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Meanings of newt in English

Portuguese
tritão
Catalan
tritó

Small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia.

        tritão
        Synonyms
        Examples for "triton"
        Examples for "triton"
        1
        Two statues; one, triton struggles with snake; in the other, with fish.
        The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts an...
        2
        These were supported by quaint heads of satyr, martyr, or laughing triton.
        A Love Story
        3
        It's only for the children's sake that I keep that triton.
        Love and Other Stories
        4
        He has been a triton in a pond of minnows.
        Caesar Dies
        5
        When Rachel had been dead almost four weeks, Adria dreamed of the triton again.
        Micah & Strange Candy
        Usage of newt in English
        1
        When the young newt is hatched, it is very like a tadpole.
        Ernest Bracebridge: School Days
        2
        An autoantibody against the human insulin receptor recognizes the newt receptor protein.
        Pubmed
        3
        He's a ghastly cripple; no legs, and arms like a newt's arms.
        Odd John
        4
        Beneath the motley of newt scales, his features were small and regular.
        Watcher of the Dead
        5
        At the bar, Zaphod was rapidly becoming as tired as a newt.
        The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
        6
        Just pop it in the cauldron, add eye of newt, and stir.
        The new yorker
        7
        Personally, I don't give a newt for your friendship with Petra Morganstern.
        James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
        8
        Like a newt, he slipped through the muck, evading the grappling hands.
        Heaven and the heather
        9
        No, you wouldn't find me grousing if I were a male newt.
        Right Ho, Jeeves
        10
        The newt is under threat from trade agreed over the Internet by collectors.
        Reuters
        11
        In comparison, limb regeneration in the adult newt is predominantly an epimorphic response.
        Pubmed
        12
        Or when Mr. Grey hawks a bogey onto a purple newt.
        James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing
        13
        Of course every living speck, amoeba or newt, has its own individual soul.
        Fantasia of the Unconscious
        14
        At any other time the question would have struck Newt as simple.
        Lonesome dove
        15
        Is Newt saying he won't debate Barack Obama in a general election?
        Reuters
        16
        A few creatures, however, including newts and axolotl salamanders, break those rules.
        Wired
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        Translations for newt
        Portuguese
        tritão
        Catalan
        tritó
        Newt through the time
        Newt across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common