notophthalmus viridescens

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   red terrestrial form of a common North American newt

   Synonymsred eft

   Broadernewt

Questions about notophthalmus viridescens

What does notophthalmus viridescens mean?

notophthalmus viridescens means "red terrestrial form of a common North American newt".

What is another word for notophthalmus viridescens?

Close synonyms include red eft. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is notophthalmus viridescens a common word?

notophthalmus viridescens is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.