Neuter vs. Spay

Neuteradjective

Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

Neuteradjective

(grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.

Neuteradjective

(grammar) Intransitive.

Neuteradjective

(biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

Neuteradjective

(literary) Sexless, nonsexual.

Neuternoun

(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.

Neuternoun

A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

Neuternoun

(grammar) The neuter gender.

Neuternoun

(grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

Neuternoun

(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

Neuterverb

To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

Neuterverb

To rid of sexuality.

Neuteradjective

Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

Neuteradjective

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.

Neuteradjective

Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.

Neuternoun

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

Neuternoun

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

Neuternoun

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.

Neuterverb

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.

Neuternoun

a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)

Neuterverb

remove the ovaries of;

Neuteradjective

of grammatical gender;

Neuteradjective

having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs

Spayverb

(transitive) To remove or destroy the ovaries and/or uterus (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant.

Spayverb

To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).

Spaynoun

The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.

Spayverb

remove the ovaries of;