
Neuter
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Neuter is a Latin adjective meaning "neither", and can refer to:
- NeuteringNeuteringNeutering, from the Latin neuter , is the removal of an animal's reproductive organ, either all of it or a considerably large part. The process is often used in reference to males whereas spaying is often reserved for females. Colloquially, both terms are often referred to as fixing...
, the sterilization of an animal - The neuter grammatical genderGrammatical genderGrammatical gender is defined linguistically as a system of classes of nouns which trigger specific types of inflections in associated words, such as adjectives, verbs and others. For a system of noun classes to be a gender system, every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be...
See also
- Trap-Neuter-ReturnTrap-Neuter-ReturnTrap-Neuter-Return , also known as Trap-Test-Vaccinate-Alter-Release is a method of humanely trapping unaltered feral cats, spaying or neutering them, and releasing them back to the same location where they were collected...
(TNR), an alternative to euthanasia for managing feral cat and dog populations