| NOUN | plant | reed | tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera ... / genera Arundo and Phragmites |
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| person | Reed, John Reed | United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917 | |
| person | Reed, Walter Reed | United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) | |
| artifact | reed, vibrating reed | a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it | |
| artifact | reed, beating-reed instrument, reed instrument | a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed |
| Sounds | riy'd | |
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| Rhymes | able-bodied ... worried: 105 rhymes with iyd... | |
| Meaning | tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera ... / genera Arundo and Phragmites. | |
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| Narrower | ditch reed, common reed, carrizo, Phragmites communis | tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles |
| giant reed, Arundo donax | large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles | |
| toetoe, toitoi, Arundo conspicua, Chionochloa conspicua | Used by Maoris for thatching | |
| Broader | gramineous plant, graminaceous plant | cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves |
| Spanish | caña | |
| Catalan | canya | |
| Adjectives | reedy | resembling a reed in being upright and slender |
| Meaning | 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). | |
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| Synonym | John Reed | |
| Instance of | communist, commie | A socialist who advocates communism / communism |
| journalist | A writer for newspapers and magazines | |
| Spanish | John Reed | |
| Catalan | John Reed, Reed | |
| Meaning | United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902). | |
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| Synonym | Walter Reed | |
| Instance of | surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones | A physician who specializes in surgery / surgery |
| Spanish | Walter Reed | |
| Catalan | Walter Reed | |
| Meaning | A vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it. | |
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| Example | "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece" | |
| Synonym | vibrating reed | |
| Narrower | double reed | A pair of joined reeds that vibrate together to produce the sound in some woodwinds |
| Broader | vibrator | A mechanical device that vibrates |
| Spanish | lengüeta | |
| Catalan | llengüeta | |
| Meaning | A musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed. | |
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| Synonyms | beating-reed instrument, reed instrument | |
| Narrower | double-reed instrument, double reed | A woodwind that has a pair of joined reeds that vibrate together |
| free-reed | A reed that does not fit closely over the aperture | |
| single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind | A beating-reed instrument with a single reed (as a clarinet or saxophone) | |
| Broader | woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood | Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments |
| Spanish | intrumento de lengüeta | |
| Catalan | instrument de llengüeta | |
| Adjectives | reedy | having a tone of a reed instrument |
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