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Word: neuter
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- archaic Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
- biology Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
- grammar Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex.
- grammar Intransitive
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Noun:
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- 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.
- grammar A noun of the '''neuter''' gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- grammar The neuter gender.
- rfv-sense grammar An intransitive verb.
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Verb:
- To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
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