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  1. 1. a. Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. 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. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Intransitive; as, a neuter verb. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3. Source: opted
  5. 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. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. An intransitive verb. Source: opted
  8. 8. n. 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. Source: opted
  9. 9. adj. neither male nor female (of grammatical gender) Source: wordnet
  10. 10. adj. having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs Source: wordnet
  11. 11. n. a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) Source: wordnet
  12. 12. v. remove the ovaries of Source: wordnet

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