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Reed (name)
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noun
(1) A musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
(2) 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"
(3) United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
(4) 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)
(5) Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
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