άφυλος — meaning in English

English meaning

• asexual adj Not experiencing sexual attraction to others.
• neuter adj Not aligned with either side; neither one thing nor the other.
• neutral adj Not taking sides in a conflict, dispute, or war.

Senses

άφυλος is used for these senses in English:

• aracial (sociology, philosophy) Without race or race distinctions.
• asexual (especially, of a person) Not experiencing sexual attraction; lacking interest in or desire for sex.
• asexual (biology) Lacking distinct sex, lacking sexual organs.
• asexual (biology) Without sexual action; reproducing by some other method than sex.
• neuter (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
• neuter (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.
• neutral (biology) Having no sex; neuter.

asexual — full definition

1. adj Not experiencing sexual attraction to others.
2. adj Reproducing without the fusion of sex cells from two parents, as in many plants, fungi, and simple organisms.
3. noun A person who does not experience sexual attraction.

neuter — full definition

1. adj Not aligned with either side; neither one thing nor the other.
2. adj In grammar, belonging to a gender that is neither masculine nor feminine.
3. verb To remove an animal's reproductive organs so it cannot breed.
4. verb To greatly weaken or reduce the effect of something.

Related Greek words