(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(2) Cells falling off from ectoderm were observed in normally developing gastrulae of the newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster, in light microscopic examination.
(3) In newts collected in April, moreover, a PGF2 alpha-dependent 17 beta-estradiol synthesis could occur, since PGF2 alpha injection induced a significant 17 beta-estradiol plasma increase.
(4) A search for specific proteins involved in newt limb regeneration, using monoclonal antibodies against forelimb blastemas, led to the detection of an antigen in the regenerate epithelium.
(5) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(6) The process of lens regeneration in newts involves the dedifferentiation of pigmented iris epithelial cells and their subsequent conversion into lens fibers.
(7) Furthermore, carnosine is absent from the primary olfactory pathway in newts.
(8) A similar self-cleavage reaction has also been reported to occur in an RNA transcript containing a dimeric copy of a tandemly repeated, 330-base-pair sequence of the newt genome.
(9) Further experiments on this mixture with Italian Great Newts and on the carbon tetrafluoride mixtures CF4-Ar and CF4-SF6 with mice suggested that the anomalous potencies may arise from specific pulmonary effects associated with the breathing of SF6 accompanied by a high pressure of some other gas.
(10) This work, based on Golgi impregnations, transmission electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry, demonstrates that the intermediate filaments found in the radial gliocytes of the adult newt spinal cord are both vimentin and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) structures.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I’m president, they’re not’: Donald Trump at rally in Washington Trump is “much more resilient” than his opponents allow, said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, before pivoting to a plug for his new book, Understanding Trump .
(12) Light microscopical histochemistry and transmission electron microscopy have been used to identify large amounts of glycogen stored in the cytoplasm of specialized astroglial cells in the spinal cord of ribbed newts.
(13) Male eastern red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) under controlled laboratory conditions exhibit unimodal magnetic compass orientation either in a trained compass direction or in the direction of their home pond.
(14) The use of these two immunologic probes has provided supportive evidence on the heterogeneity of the lymphoid population of the newt, Triturus viridescens.
(15) The interaction of migrating newt epidermal cells with the extracellular matrix protein, fibronectin, was studied.
(16) When inseminated with sperm of the newt, Cynops pyrrhogaster, mature Bufo oocytes exhibited polyspermy accompanied by a gradual hyperpolarization and a slowly developing positive plateau, without the fast spike that occurs in self-species fertilization.
(17) When viewed by light microscopy the mitotic spindle in newt pneumocytes assembles in an optically clear area of cytoplasm, virtually devoid of mitochondria and other organelles, which can be much larger than the forming spindle.
(18) The relation between p-aminohippurate uptake and the electrochemical potential gradient of Na+ (delta muNa+) across the peritubular membrane was examined in newt (Triturus pyrrhogaster) kidney.
(19) Not all cells of the adult newt blastema are randomly distributed and actively progressing through the cell cycle.
(20) Many HBox genes sustain their expression in the appendages of the adult newt.
Nowt
Definition:
(n. pl.) Neat cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes to nowt but expanding their horizons may just have done them good in the long term.
(2) Now all the cash is spent, it's still the grand romantic gesture, in another kind of way: dangling a line off the wall at high tide and waiting for a crab, taking him home in my bucket, cooking him on the Campingaz stove, cracking him open and eating him – one of the sea's great bounteous luxuries for nowt.
(3) Talk of Hazel Blears coming out of retirement came to nowt.
(4) Referee: Pavel Kralovec (Czech Republic) Linesmen: Roman Slysko (Slovakia) and Martin Wilczek (Czech Republic) Goal-line officials who some pundits still think do nowt: Radek Pfhoda (Czech Rep) and Micahal Patak (Czech Republic) How City will line up: In a 4-2-3-1, almost certainly, with Pablo Zabaleta and Gael Clichy bookending Matija Nastasic and Vincent Kompany on the right and left of a back four protected by the defensive midfield screen of Javi Garcia and Yaya Toure.
(5) France clear the set piece fairly easily, which should ease the strain on their under-pressure left-back's facial muscles if nowt else.
(6) Tommy’s nowt to worry about,” they used to say on the Fieldhead estate in Birstall, West Yorkshire.
(7) But as my mum liked to tell me: “You can’t look back, lad because there’s nowt there but the dust of the dead.” Now I am in my 90s I know that my time on this Earth is almost done.
(8) Not in the area though, crucially, so you can see why Phil Dowd gave nowt.
(9) They know you don’t get ‘owt for nowt’, and the NHS is way top of their concerns.
(10) #respect August 16, 2015 Alex Walmsley, a prop forward with St Helens, wrote: “Nothing but respect for my good friend and old front row partner @KeeganHirst.” Another message, from a fan, said: “changes nowt pal.
(11) It got a laugh three nights in a row in Hull, but it got nowt in Windsor, Colchester and London.
(12) As my mum once said to me in youth when I was impatient to leave her company: "It costs you nowt but time to have a cuppa with your mum."
(13) On watch, a rifleman scoured the terrain – no sign of life, no shadows, shots from snipers, nowt to note or report.
(14) This is an edited version of a post that first appeared on Jonathan Allsop's personal blog – nowt much to say Are you a member of our online community?
(15) The surgeon, Mr Vickers, looked him clearly in the eye and said, “Mr Eccleston, it’s a very risky operation.” Despite my father’s confusion, he somehow recognised the doctor’s emotion and said, “Listen, you have got to do it for me, because otherwise it’s nowt down for pal [a Salford expression, meaning he would be dead] and, if it goes wrong, it’s not your fault.” When I saw my father showing such empathy, I don’t think I had ever been prouder of him.
(16) Both the suspect and his solicitor, who tells his clients “If in doubt, say nowt”, gave their permission for the interviews to be filmed, and each later contributed to the programme.
(17) However, Sunderland do nowt with it and Kolarov hacks it away.