NEWT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does newt mean? 

• NEWT (noun)
  The noun NEWT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NEWT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

newt; triton

Hypernyms ("newt" is a kind of...):

salamander (any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newt"):

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)

Holonyms ("newt" is a member of...):

family Salamandridae; Salamandridae (salamanders)

 Context examples 

A taxonomic class of vertebrates that include frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and gymnophiona.

(Amphibia, NCI Thesaurus)