Reed (Noun)
Meaning 1
United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902).
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 2
Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
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Nouns denoting plants.
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Meaning 3
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".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 4
A musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed.
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Meaning 5
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).
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Nouns denoting people.