Definitions from Wiktionary (neuter)
▸ adjective: (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
▸ adjective: (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
▸ adjective: (grammar) Intransitive.
▸ adjective: (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
▸ adjective: (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
▸ adjective: (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
▸ 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: (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
▸ noun: The act of neutering (typically an animal)
▸ noun: A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
▸ 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: (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
▸ verb: (transitive) To rid of sexuality.
▸ verb: (transitive) To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make grammatically neuter.
▸ Also see neuter
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▸ adjective: (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
▸ adjective: (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
▸ adjective: (grammar) Intransitive.
▸ adjective: (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
▸ adjective: (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
▸ adjective: (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
▸ 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: (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
▸ noun: The act of neutering (typically an animal)
▸ noun: A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
▸ 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: (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
▸ verb: (transitive) To rid of sexuality.
▸ verb: (transitive) To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make grammatically neuter.
▸ Also see neuter
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