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🐶 Not sterilized 🐱 A fertile female
unspayed

unspayed

8.7
A female animal that has not had surgery to stop her having babies
  • noun
: hembra no esterilizada
  • Caring for an unspayed requires attention during her heat cycles.

Examples

  • Shelters often separate unspayed from males to avoid accidental breeding.

  • The veterinarian recommended that all unspayed be kept indoors to prevent unwanted litters.

  • Don't adopt an unspayed pet!

  • An unspayed female dog can have multiple litters each year.

  • The shelter has many unspayed cats waiting for loving homes.

  • Adopting an unspayed animal requires a commitment to prevent her from having unwanted litters.

  • An unspayed female dog may become aggressive during her heat cycles.

Surface Forms

unspayed singular
unspayed plural

Morphology

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

The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the adjective 'spayed', indicating the absence of the action.

Etymology

Unspayed comes from un- ('not') plus spay ('to remove the organs that let a female have babies'), so as a noun an unspayed is a female animal that has not been spayed and may still have young.