reeds

'reeds'

[reed.n.01] as in: tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

'reeds'

[reed.n.02] as in: 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)

'reeds'

[reed.n.03] as in: United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

'reeds'

[reed.n.04] as in: 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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Examples:
the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece

'reeds'

[beating-reed_instrument.n.01] as in: a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed