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Noun reed has 5 senses

reed - tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
--₁ is a kind of gramineous plant, graminaceous plant
--₁ has particulars:
toetoe, toitoi, Arundo conspicua, Chionochloa conspicua; giant reed, Arundo donax; ditch reed, common reed, carrizo, Phragmites communis
Reed, John Reed - 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)
--₂ is a kind of journalist; communist, commie
Reed, Walter Reed - United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
--₃ is a kind of surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones
reed, vibrating reed - 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"
--₄ is a kind of vibrator
--₄ has particulars: double reed
beating-reed instrument, reed - a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed
--₅ is a kind of woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood
--₅ has particulars:
double-reed instrument, double reed; free-reed; single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind