reed

Nouns

  • (n) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
  • (n) 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) John Reed,
  • (n) United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) Walter Reed,
  • (n) 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
    vibrating reed,
  • (n) a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed beating-reed instrument, reed instrument,

Synonyms

John Reed Walter Reed vibrating reed beating-reed instrument reed instrument

Words of close approximity

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Reb red ref REM rep RES ret rev Rex
read real ream reap rear rede redo reef reek reel Reid rein REIT rely rend Reno rent repp resh rest rete
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