单词 | neuter |
释义 | neuter (once / 5349 pages) adjnv WORD FAMILY neuter: neutered, neutering, neuters USAGE EXAMPLESIf we look to the comics source material, there is a precedent for this kind of neutering. Salon(Dec 26, 2016) In addition to performing physical examinations and ear swabs, Rubino and nine other students in her group assisted with spay and neuter procedures. Washington Times(Nov 27, 2016) At 8 weeks, the kittens are neutered and spayed and move around the corner to the ASPCA’s adoption center on East 92nd Street. Seattle Times(Nov 26, 2016) 1adj having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs Syn sexless asexual, nonsexual not having or involving sex 2adj of grammatical gender `it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun Ant masculine of grammatical gender feminineof grammatical gender masculineassociated with men and not with women feminineassociated with women and not with men 3n a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) Hyper gender, grammatical gender a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness 4v remove the ovaries of Syn|Hypo|Hyper alter, castrate, spay defeminise, defeminize remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex make infertile |
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