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Defenition of the word reed

    • Defenition of the word reed

      • Any of various types of tall stiff grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
      • a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed
      • a thin strip of stiff material that is fitted into the mouthpiece of woodwind instruments and that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
      • tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
      • 1851-1902
      • a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it; "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"
      • United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
      • United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
      • a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
      • a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

    Synonyms for the word reed

      • beating-reed instrument
      • Reed
      • Walter Reed

    Meronymys for the word reed

      • double reed

    Hyponyms for the word reed

      • Arundo conspicua
      • Arundo donax
      • carrizo
      • Chionochloa conspicua
      • common reed
      • ditch reed
      • double reed
      • double-reed instrument
      • free-reed
      • giant reed
      • Phragmites communis
      • single-reed instrument
      • single-reed woodwind
      • toetoe
      • toitoi

    Hypernyms for the word reed

      • commie
      • communist
      • graminaceous plant
      • gramineous plant
      • journalist
      • mechanical device
      • operating surgeon
      • sawbones
      • surgeon
      • vibrator
      • wood
      • woodwind
      • woodwind instrument

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