Associations to the word «Neutered»

NEUTER, adjective. (archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

NEUTER, adjective. (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine

NEUTER, adjective. (grammar) Intransitive

NEUTER, adjective. (biology) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.

NEUTER, 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.

NEUTER, noun. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

NEUTER, noun. (grammar) The neuter gender.

NEUTER, noun. (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

NEUTER, noun. (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

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

NEUTER, verb. To rid of sexuality

NEUTER, noun. A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine).

NEUTER, verb. Remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?".

NEUTER, adjective. Of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun".

NEUTER, adjective. Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs.