NEUTER

I. adjective see: no Date: 14th century 1. of, relating to, or constituting the gender that ordinarily includes most words or grammatical forms referring to things classed as neither masculine nor feminine, neither active nor passive ; intransitive , taking no side ; neutral , lacking or having imperfectly developed or nonfunctional generative organs , II. noun Date: 15th century 1. a noun, pronoun, adjective, or inflectional form or class of the ~ gender, the ~ gender, one that is neutral, 3. worker 2, a spayed or castrated animal, III. transitive verb Date: 1903 castrate , alter , to remove the force or effectiveness of