releaser

releaser
/ri lee"seuhr/, n.
1. a person or thing that releases.
2. Ethology. a key stimulus, as a sound, odor, moving shape, or patch of color, that elicits a predictable behavioral response in an animal.
[1425-75; late ME. See RELEASE, -ER1]

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