| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
reductase re·duc·tase (rĭ-dŭk'tās', -tāz')
n.
An enzyme that promotes reduction of an organic compound.