Neuter

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Neither masculine nor feminine in gender.
  • adjective. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Having undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs.
  • adjective. Having pistils and stamens that are nonfunctional or absent.
  • adjective. Castrated or spayed. Used of animals.
  • adjective. Androgynous or asexual.
  • adjective. Taking no side in a dispute; neutral.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The neuter gender.
  • noun. A neuter word.
  • noun. A neuter noun.
  • noun. An androgynous or asexual person.
  • noun. A castrated animal.
  • noun. An insect that has undeveloped or nonfunctional sexual organs, such as a worker bee.
  • noun. One that is neutral in a dispute.
  • transitive verb. To castrate or spay.
  • transitive verb. To render ineffective or powerless.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Neither the one thing nor the other; not adhering to either party; taking no part with either side, as in a contention or discussion; neutral.
  • In gram.:
  • Of neither gender; neither masculine nor feminine: used when words are grammatically or formally distinguished as masculine, feminine, and neuter—a distinction made in English only in the pronouns he, she, it.
  • Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Abbreviated n. and neuter
  • In botany, same as neutral.
  • In zoology, having no fully developed sex: as, neuter bees.
  • noun. A neutral.
  • noun. An animal of neither sex, and incapable of propagation; one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as ants and bees, which perform all the labors of the community; a worker. See cuts under bee, Atta, and Termes.
  • noun. In botany, a plant which has neither stamens nor pistils. See cut under neutral.
  • noun. In grammar, a noun of the neuter gender. Abbreviated n. and neuter
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex
  • adjective. Intransitive.
  • adjective. Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
  • noun. A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
  • noun. An intransitive verb.
  • noun. An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
  • transitive verb. To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; -- in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
  • adjective. Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex.
  • adjective. Intransitive
  • adjective. Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
  • noun. The neuter gender.
  • noun. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
  • noun. An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
  • noun. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
  • noun. An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
  • verb. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.