English dictionary

reed

/r/i/d/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

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

noun.plant

Source: WordNet 3.0
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)

noun.person

Synonyms john reed

Source: WordNet 3.0
United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

noun.person

Synonyms walter reed

Source: WordNet 3.0
a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

noun.artifact

Examples
The clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece.

Synonyms vibrating reed

Source: WordNet 3.0
a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

noun.artifact

Synonyms beating-reed instrument reed instrument

Source: WordNet 3.0
The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

noun

Source: webster1913
A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (<i>Phragmites communis</i>).

noun

Source: webster1913