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Related / Similar Words: beating-reed instrument, reed, vibrating reed, Walter Reed, John Reed

 

Definition:
  • a musical instrument that sounds by means of a 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";
  • United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902);
  • 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);
  • tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites;

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    Hyponyms: double-reed instrument, double reed, free-reed, single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind, toetoe, toitoi, Arundo conspicua, Chionochloa conspicua, giant reed, Arundo donax, ditch reed, common reed, carrizo, Phragmites communis

     

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    Language Translations:
    Albanian: kulmak   Catalan: canya  
    Croatian: trska   Danish: siv  
    Dutch: riet   Esperanto: kano  
    Finnish: kaislikko   French: roseau  
    German: Schilf   Hungarian: nád  
    Italian: canna   Korean: 갈대  
    Portuguese: cana   Romanian: stuf  
    Slovak: trstina   Spanish: caña  
    Swedish: vass   Thai: อ้อ  
    Turkish: saz  
     
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