Adjective
Neutral
;
on
neither
side
;
neither
one
thing
nor
another
.
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
;
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
.
Verb
To
remove
sex organs
from
an
animal
to
prevent
it
from
having
offspring
;
to
castrate
or
spay
,
particularly
as
applied
to
domestic
animals
.