reintroductions

Noun

reintroduction (plural reintroductions)

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 11.1956 May, “W.R. Narrow-Gauge Engine Names”, in Railway Magazine, page 280
2. 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...2008, Edward O. Price, “Maternal and Neonatal Behavior”, in Principles and Applications of Domestic Animal Behavior: An Introductory Text, Wallingford, Oxfordshire; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN...
3. (countable) An animal so released.