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Redstarts
- noun - European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins
- flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail
Redstreak
- - A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.
Redthroat
- - A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
Reducible
- adjective - capable of being reduced; "reducible to a set of principles of human nature"- Edmund Wilson
Reducings
- noun - any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
- loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing"
Reductant
- noun - a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
Reductase
- noun - an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance
Reduction
- noun - any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
- the act of decreasing or reducing something
- the act of reducing complexity
Reductios
- noun - (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction
Reductive
- adjective - characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere