Reintroduction
noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of introducing something again.
"On the passenger-carrying 1 ft. 11½ in.-gauge Vale of Rheidol branch from Aberystwyth to Devils Bridge, however, the 2-6-2 tank engines are to be named for the reintroduction of the train service for this summer on June 11."
- 2 an act of renewed introduction wordnet
- 3 The release of animals from captivity into the wild, especially, into an area where they have become extirpated or greatly reduced.
"Klopfer and Gamble (1966) gave 16 female goats (C. hircus) 5 min of contact with their young at parturition. Nine of the mothers had been temporarily rendered anosmic (could not smell) at parturition by spraying a 10% cocaine hydrogen chloride solution into their nostrils 20–90 min prior to parturition. […] Eight of the nine females who were anosmic at parturition but could smell at reintroduction accepted their own offspring, as well as alien young during reinstatement."
- 4 An animal so released. countable
Example
More examples"The project is a threatened species reintroduction project. We are aiming at eradicating feral animals, predators particularly — cats and foxes — from a large landscape. We will be working with local Indigenous communities to achieve that eradication. We will be then reintroducing a whole range of Australian endangered mammal species that have disappeared from this landscape completely."
Etymology
From re- + introduction.
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