neuter
- Adjective. (archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
- Adjective. (grammar) 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. (grammar) Intransitive.
- Adjective. (biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
- Noun. (grammar) The neuter gender.
- Noun. (grammar) A noun of the '''neuter''' gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- Noun. (biology) 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. (grammar) 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.
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