See Also: Newt(medicine)
newt(dictionary)
newt(encyclopedia)
newt(dictionary)
water newt(medicine)
Eyes of Newt(recipes)

comet (iou) and newt (sh)


comet (iou)



comet noun & adjective. Also cometa. LOE.
[(Old & mod. French comete from) Latin cometa from Greek kometes long-haired (star), from komaein wear the hair long, from kome hair.]
A. noun.
Astronomy. A celestial object that orbits the sun in a highly elliptical path and, when in the vicinity of the sun, usu. has a bright hazy head and a long more diffuse tail. LOE.
Oort comet cloud, Oort's comet cloud: see OORT 2.
b. fig. A portent; a herald. L16.
A card-game ancestral to Newmarket. L17.
Comb.: comet-finder, comet-seeker a telescope of low power and large field of view, used in searching for comets; comet-year: in which a notable comet has appeared.
b. adjective. Designating Wine made in a comet-year, supposed to have superior qualities. M19.
cometary adjective of or pertaining to a comet or comets; like a comet: M17.
co'metic,
co'metical adjectives cometary; fig. blazing; portentous; erratic: M17.

newt (sh)




or eft

Any of more than 40 salamander species (family Salamandridae) prevalent in the southeastern U.S. and Mexico and also found in Asia and Great Britain.

Aquatic species are called newts; terrestrial species are called efts. Newts have a long, slender body, and the tail is higher than it is wide. They eat earthworms, insects, snails, and Other small animals. Both aquatic and terrestrial species breed in ponds. The three species (genus Triturus) in Britain are sometimes called tritons. The red eft (Notophthalmus viridescens) of eastern North America is bright red during its terrestrial youth, after which it becomes permanently aquatic and dull green.


Warty newt (Triturus cristatus)

Toni Angermayer