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Definition of Newts
1. newt [n] - See also: newt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Newts
Literary usage of Newts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pet Book by Anna Botsford Comstock (1914)
"SALAMANDERS AND newts SALAMANDER makes an unexpectedly interesting pet, ...
Thus, these newts make a practice of never going out except when it rains. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"(E.) Formerly newts, which does not seem to be older than about AD 1500. ...
to here newts ; ' Berners, ..."
3. Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)
"pellets of clay, and smashing little plaster figures and winning macaroons; losing
one's self in the beautiful forest; catching newts and tadpoles and young ..."
4. The Elements of Animal Biology by Samuel Jackson Holmes (1919)
"CHAPTER XIX THE AMPHIBIA (FROGS, TOADS, newts AND SALAMANDERS) The Amphibians or
Batrachians, as a class, show a certain proclivity for living in or near ..."
5. On Mammalian Descent; the Hunterian Lectures for 1884: Being Nine Lectures by William Kitchen Parker, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1885)
"The Amphibia (newts and Frogs and their kindred) lay small eggs, as in the Lamprey,
with but little food-yolk, but a number of curious family arrangements ..."
6. New Ideas for Out of Doors: The Field and Forest Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1906)
"The newts and salamanders do not care for the sunshine, which dries them into
mummies, but the snakes and toads delight in sunning themselves. ..."
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