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n. Any of several small, slender, often brightly colored salamanders of the European genus Triturus or the North American genera Notophthalmus and Taricha, living chiefly on land but becoming aquatic during the breeding season.

n. a small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult.

n. Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species.

n. A tailed batrachian; an animal of the genus Triton in a broad sense, as T. cristatus, the great warty or crested newt, or T. (Lissotriton) punctatus, the common smooth newt; an eft; an asker; a triton.

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

"Use the word "nags" at 1 across and the word "newt" at 1 down."

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blind newts    webbed newt   

triturus vulgaris    eft    common newt    red eft    pacific newt    notophthalmus viridescens   

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Beirut    Bute    Butte    Jute    Root    Shute    absolut    acute    astute    boot   

vireo    viper    tadpole    salamander    bellbird    rutabagas    mocassin    grebe    screech owl    cuite