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Meaning of reed

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  reed
      n 1: tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems
           especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
      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) [syn: {Reed}, {John Reed}]
      3: United States physician who proved that yellow fever is
         transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) [syn: {Reed}, {Walter
         Reed}]
      4: 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" [syn:
         {reed}, {vibrating reed}]
      5: a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
         [syn: {beating-reed instrument}, {reed instrument}, {reed}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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