| neuter | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. neuter | a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine). |
| ~ gender, grammatical gender | a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness. |
| v. (body) | 2. alter, castrate, neuter, spay | remove the ovaries of.; "Is your cat spayed?" |
| ~ defeminise, defeminize | remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats). |
| ~ desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix | make infertile.; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" |
| adj. | 3. neuter | of grammatical gender.; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun" |
| adj. | 4. neuter, sexless | having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs. |
| ~ asexual, nonsexual | not having or involving sex.; "an asexual spore"; "asexual reproduction" |
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