n (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.