Noun Definition
reed
1.Definition: a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
Category: Objects2.Definition: 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"
Category: Objects3.Definition: tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
Category: Plants4.Definition: 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)
Related Noun(s):john reed
Category: People5.Definition: United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
Related Noun(s):walter reed
Category: People