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PACIFIC NEWT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several rough-skinned newts found in western North America

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Pacific newt" is a kind of...):

newt; triton (small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Pacific newt"):

rough-skinned newt; Taricha granulosa (newt of humid coast from Alaska to southern California)

California newt; Taricha torosa (newt that is similar to Taricha granulosa in characteristics and habitat)

Holonyms ("Pacific newt" is a member of...):

genus Taricha; Taricha (Pacific newts)

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