Reed - Definition
reed
n 1: tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems
especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
2: 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) [syn: Reed, John Reed]
3: United States physician who proved that yellow fever is
transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) [syn: Reed, Walter
Reed]
4: 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" [syn:
reed, vibrating reed]
5: a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
[syn: beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed]