reductase

1. 1.

   an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance

   Broaderenzyme

   NarrowerHMG-CoA reductase

Other forms of reductase

plural

reductases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reductase

What does reductase mean?

reductase means "an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance".

How many syllables are in reductase?

reductase has 3 syllables: re-duc-tase. The stress falls on "re".

Is reductase a common word?

reductase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.