reed [ ri:d ]

• n.
  • 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)

    同义词： John Reed

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

    同义词： Walter 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"

    同义词： vibrating reed

  • a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

    同义词： beating-reed instrument reed instrument

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