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neuter

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As an adjective, neuter means neutral. As a noun, it means 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.

Meanings of neuter

15 meanings

adjective

  1. now uncommonNeutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

  2. grammarHaving a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.

    “a neuter noun”

    “the neuter definite article”

  3. grammarIntransitive.

    “a neuter verb”

  4. biologySexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

  5. literarySexless, nonsexual.

  6. Neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)

    “‘it’ is the third-person singular neuter pronoun”

noun

  1. biologyAn 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.

  2. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

  3. grammarThe neuter gender.

  4. grammarA noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

  5. grammarAn intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

  6. A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

verb

  1. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

  2. To rid of sexuality.

  3. To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.

    “Congress neutered the bill by adding an exception for big corporations.”

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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adjective: having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex o…
verb: remove the ovaries of

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