/nooh"teuhr, nyooh"-/ , adj.
1. Gram.
a. noting or pertaining to a gender that refers to things classed as neither masculine nor feminine.
b. (of a verb) intransitive.
2. Biol. having no organs of reproduction; without sex; asexual.
3. Zool. having imperfectly developed sexual organs, as the worker bees and ants.
4. Bot. having neither stamens nor pistils; asexual.
5. neutral; siding with no one.
n.
6. Gram.
a. the neuter gender.
b. a noun of that gender.
c. another element marking that gender.
d. an intransitive verb.
7. an animal made sterile by castration or spaying.
8. Zool. a neuter insect.
9. a person or thing that is neutral.
v.t.
10. Vet. Sci. to spay or castrate (a dog, cat, etc.).
[ 1350-1400; neuter neither (of two), equiv. to ne not + uter either (of two); r. ME neutre ]