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Definition of Reed
1. Noun. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
Specialized synonyms: Arundo Conspicua, Chionochloa Conspicua, Toetoe, Toitoi, Arundo Donax, Giant Reed, Carrizo, Common Reed, Ditch Reed, Phragmites Communis
Derivative terms: Reedy
2. Noun. 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).
3. Noun. United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902).
4. Noun. 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"
5. Noun. A musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed.
Specialized synonyms: Double Reed, Double-reed Instrument, Free-reed, Single-reed Instrument, Single-reed Woodwind
Generic synonyms: Wood, Woodwind, Woodwind Instrument
Derivative terms: Reedy
Definition of Reed
1. a. Red.
2. v. & n. Same as Rede.
3. n. The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
4. n. A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
Definition of Reed
1. to fasten with reeds (the stalks of tall grasses) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Reed
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The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
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