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🐶 Not sterilized 🐱 A fertile female
unspayed

unspayed

1 7.3
A female animal that has not had surgery to stop her having babies
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈspeɪd/
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  • The shelter is filled with unspayed female dogs waiting for adoption.

Examples

  • All from one unspayed female cat, and at least one unseen but quite present unneutered male cat.

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  • The majority of new puppies come from breeders, with most of the remainder from unspayed/neutered pets.

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  • Well, unspayed female cats are called Queens.

  • So many years ago, I had a favorite collie, unspayed because her pups would be valuable.

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  • She may have been one of the many unspayed females who go into heat and manage to get out the door but are never found, ending up living on the streets.

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  • SO's cat is unspayed.

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  • Rescued from a house with too many unspayed and unneutered cats, the enthusiastically friendly and uniquely marked Cinnamon is looking for a home.

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  • Many unspayed cats can contribute to the growing population of strays in urban areas.

  • An unspayed female rabbit can have multiple litters each year if not kept indoors.

Synonyms

unsterile
vsunspayed
  • Specialized
5.3

Able to have young

refers only to a female animal not surgically sterilized

Surface Forms

unspayed positive

Morphology

unspayed = spayed (transparent) = un + spay + ed

Formed by the productive negative prefix 'un-' attached to the adjective 'spayed' (spay + -ed), so meaning is a straightforward negation of 'spayed'.

Etymology

Unspayed breaks into un- ('not') and spay ('to remove the organs that let a female have babies'), so it describes a female animal that has not been sterilized and can still have puppies or kittens.