reed

Noun

• a musical instrument that sounds by means of a 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
    

• United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

• 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)

• tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  beating-reed instrument , reed instrument , vibrating reed , Reed , Walter Reed , John Reed