A "newt" is a small amphibious animal that looks like a lizard.
Sentences with «newt»
As one officer put it to me: «I might manage to recognise a Siberian tiger, but to tell a protected species of newt from a nonprotected one is a different matter altogether.» (newscientist.com)
In laboratory tests, the researchers found a 100 - percent mortality rate in Eastern newts (one of my favorite forest and pond creatures) exposed to the fungus. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Lodge Hill is no pristine woodland; great crested newts live happily in clay pits. (newscientist.com)