Neuter

Related Terms:

neutral heterogynous castrate developed contest hydrangea sexless hemigamous rid neutering effectiveness castrator neuters gender nonsexual imperfectly nonvirile alter intransitive ant no sex organ neutereth eunuch drastically neuterest remove stamen unneutered spay pistil n honeybee neutered organ sexuality worker castration generative it its operation dog male dogs dogs male painful spay cat cat testicle removal testicle removal gonads cut cut gonads pets sterilize sterilize dog

Definitions:

Noun

neuter

Definition: a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

Definition: 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.

Verb

alter neuter spay castrate

Definition: remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"

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

Adjective

neuter

Definition: of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"

neuter sexless

Definition: having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

Definition: Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.