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neutering::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | altering, fixing |
| Type of | sterilisation, sterilization |
| Has types | castration, emasculation, spaying |
| Derivation | neuter |
they took him to the vet for neutering.
Examples of neutering
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It requires spaying and neutering of all varieties of pit bulls and Rottweilers.
From the fresnobee.com
Declawing your cat is not much different than neutering or spaying dogs and cats.
From the dailynews.com
So we paid for the spaying and neutering of the animals and found homes for them.
From the toledoblade.com
Readers debate the benefits of holding off on neutering for a couple of years.
From the chron.com
He advocated cat bells, neutering, keeping cats inside and not replacing them.
From the nzherald.co.nz
For example, the most common procedure for cats and dogs is spaying and neutering.
From the abcnews.go.com
Once they got George, they knew that neutering him was the right thing to do.
From the ocregister.com
That includes neutering, placing a microchip under the skin and vaccinations.
From the post-gazette.com
Changing Lyndie's diaper is no more difficult than neutering a fully conscious pig.
From the sltrib.com
- A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
- Alter: remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
- Of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun"
- Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
- (neutered) altered: having testicles or ovaries removed
- (neutering) the sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering"
- Neutering, from the Latin neuter (of neither sex), is the removal of an animal's reproductive organ, either all of it or a considerably large part. It is the most drastic surgical procedure with sterilizing purposes. ...
- The neuter gender; A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words; 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, ...
- (NEUTERS) Imperfectly developed females of certain social insects (such as Ants and Bees), which perform all the labours of the community. Hence they are also called workers.
