tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

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 ]

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

[ Syn: reed , walter 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

[ Syn: vibrating reed ]

a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

[ Syn: beating-reed instrument , reed instrument ]