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reed   (TTS Sound)

The noun reed has 5 senses

• reed -- (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)


• Reed, John Reed -- (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))


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


• reed, vibrating 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")


• beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed -- (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)