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neuter

adjective

  1. Archaic taking neither side; neutral
  2. Biol.
    1. having no sexual organ; asexual
    2. having undeveloped or imperfect sexual organs in the adult, as the worker bee
  3. Gram.
    1. designating, of, or belonging to a third gender, existing in many highly inflected languages, consisting of words that have neither masculine nor feminine grammatical gender
    2. neither active nor passive; intransitive: said of verbs

noun

  1. a castrated or spayed animal
  2. Archaic a neutral person or group
  3. Biol. a plant or animal lacking, or having undeveloped, sexual organs
  4. Gram.
    1. the neuter gender
    2. a word or form in this gender
    3. an intransitive verb

transitive verb

to castrate or spay (an animal)

See neuter in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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