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What is a reductant?

What is a reductant? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) A reducing agent
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These enzymes link the detoxification of toxic H 2 O 2 to oxidation of the reductant ascorbate.
Coking coal is one used widely to produce coke as a reductant at steel blast furnace.
The presence of ascorbate as a cosolute had little effect on visible emission, despite its demonstrated capacity to act as a strong reductant for the indoxyl radical.
As a reductant, it is very important in maintaining the stability of erythrocyte membranes and the structure of hemoglobin.
At 50 mM reductant, some disulfide formation remains as revealed by the persistent dimer band.
In redox processes, the reductant transfers electrons to the oxidant.

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