NEUTER

noun an intransitive verb.

2. neuter ·adj intransitive; as, a neuter verb.

3. neuter ·adj neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

4. neuter ·adj having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. ·see neuter, ·noun, 3.

5. neuter ·noun a noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

6. neuter ·noun a person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

7. neuter ·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; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

8. neuter ·noun 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.