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What does neuter mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word neuter? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side
  2. (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
  3. (grammar) Intransitive.
Noun
  1. (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.
  2. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
  3. (grammar) The neuter gender.
  4. (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
  5. (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
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