neuter

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Grammar Neither masculine nor feminine in gender.
2. adj. Grammar Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Used of verbs.
3. adj. Biology Having undeveloped or imperfectly developed sexual organs: the neuter caste in social insects.
4. adj. Botany Having no pistils or stamens; asexual.
5. adj. Zoology Sexually undeveloped.
6. adj. Taking no side; neutral.
7. n. Grammar The neuter gender.
8. n. Grammar A neuter word.
9. n. Grammar A neuter noun.
10. n. A castrated animal.
11. n. A sexually undeveloped or imperfectly developed insect, such as a worker bee.
12. n. A plant without stamens or pistils.
13. n. One that is neutral.
14. v. To castrate or spay.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Neither the one thing nor the other; not adhering to either party; taking no part with either side, as in a contention or discussion; neutral.
2. In gram.:
3. Of neither gender; neither masculine nor feminine: used when words are grammatically or formally distinguished as masculine, feminine, and neuter—a distinction made in English only in the pronouns he, she, it.
4. Neither active nor passive; intransitive. Abbreviated n. and neuter
5. In botany, same as neutral.
6. In zoology, having no fully developed sex: as, neuter bees.
7. n. A neutral.
8. n. An animal of neither sex, and incapable of propagation; one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as ants and bees, which perform all the labors of the community; a worker. See cuts under bee, Atta, and Termes.
9. n. In botany, a plant which has neither stamens nor pistils. See cut under neutral.
10. n. In grammar, a noun of the neuter gender. Abbreviated n. and neuter

Wiktionary

1. adj. archaic Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
2. adj. 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.
3. adj. grammar Intransitive
4. adj. biology Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless.
5. n. grammar The neuter gender.
6. n. grammar A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
7. n. 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.
8. n. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
9. n. grammar An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
10. v. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
11. v. To rid of sexuality

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Archaic Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
2. adj. 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
3. adj. Intransitive.
4. adj. (Biol.) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
5. n. A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
6. n. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
7. n. An intransitive verb.
8. n. (Biol.) 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; esp., 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.
9. v. To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; -- in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. of grammatical gender
2. n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
3. adj. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
4. v. remove the ovaries of