noun
- Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
- 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.
- synonyms: John Reed
- United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902.
- synonyms: Walter Reed
- A vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it.
- usage: "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"
- synonyms: vibrating reed
- A musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed.
- synonyms: beating-reed instrument, reed instrument
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