reeds

Meanings

Noun

• tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
• 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)
• United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
• a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
• a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
• plural of reed

Verb

• third-person singular simple present indicative of reed

Synonyms

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