Synonyms for newt

Grammar : Noun

Spell : noot, nyoot

Phonetic Transcription : nut, nyut

Définition of newt

Origin : early 15c., misdivision of an ewte (see N for other examples), from Middle English evete (see eft).

As in amphibian : noun cold-blooded vertebrate

Example sentences :

The new jaw, or leg, is a newt's, and never by any accident more like that of a frog.
Extract from : « The Origin of Species » by Thomas H. Huxley

He seized Newt Elkey by the arm and said, "What does she do?"
Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes

I'd like to know what Newt Copley thinks of the Barville nine.
Extract from : « Rival Pitchers of Oakdale » by Morgan Scott

Of course every living speck, amoeba or newt, has its own individual soul.
Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence

I never heard of any; but I wanted a newt, and so I proposed that we should fish here.
Extract from : « Ernest Bracebridge » by William H. G. Kingston

"All I got to say is that you ought to be attendin' to it, if it's your business," said Newt loftily.
Extract from : « Anderson Crow, Detective » by George Barr McCutcheon

Neither the pike nor the common European water-tortoise will eat this newt.
Extract from : « The Making of Species » by Douglas Dewar

He was also the Newt who had tried to bushwhack Chuck on the trail.
Extract from : « Slim Evans and his Horse Lightning » by Graham M. Dean

The skin of the Newt is quite devoid of any exoskeletal structures.
Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds

This partly corresponds to the orbitosphenoids of the Newt's skull.
Extract from : « The Vertebrate Skeleton » by Sidney H. Reynolds

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