Usually means: Make incapable of reproducing sexually.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word neuter:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. neuter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. neuter, the neuter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. neuter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. neuter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. neuter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Neuter, neuter: Wordnik
  7. neuter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. neuter: Wiktionary
  9. neuter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. neuter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. neuter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. neuter: Dictionary.com
  13. neuter (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. neuter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Neuter (grammar), Neuter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Neuter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. neuter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. neuter: Rhymezone
  19. neuter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. neuter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. neuter: Free Dictionary
  22. neuter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. neuter: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. neuter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neuter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. neuter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neuter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See neutered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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