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reed
 
Noun reed has 5 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
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