| reed | a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed |
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| reed | mechanical device consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that is fitted into the mouthpiece of woodwind instruments and that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it |
| reed | tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites |
| reed | American physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) |
| reed | United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917 |
| reed | European bunting inhabiting marshy areas |
| reed | perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves |
| reed | any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes |
| reed | tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down |
| reed | a pasture grass of moist places throughout North America |
| reed | a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows |
| reed | organ pipe with a vibrating reed |