neuter
/ˈn(j)utɚ/ noun C2- 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.
- One who has been neutered; eunuch.
- The act of neutering (typically an animal)
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- The neuter gender.
- A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
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