1. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
   "Reeds along the riverbank provided habitat for numerous bird species"
    
2. A musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
   "The clarinet is a popular beating-reed instrument in orchestras";
   - beating-reed instrument, reed instrument
    
3. A vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
   "the clarinettist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece";
   - vibrating reed

1. United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
   - Walter Reed
    
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)
   - John Reed

Sounds like: re, rayd, reed, rede, Rei

Derived forms: Reeds, reeds

Type of: commie [informal], commo [informal], communist, graminaceous plant, gramineous plant, journalist, journo [Brit, informal], operating surgeon, red [informal], sawbones [informal], scribbler [informal], scribe [informal], surgeon, vibrator, wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument

Encyclopedia: Reed, Norway