Definitions For Reed

noun

• A musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
• A vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
• 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
• A tall, thin grass that grows in wet areas
• A thin strip of wood, metal, or plastic inside some musical instruments (such as clarinets and oboes) that makes a sound when you blow over it
• A musical instrument that has a reed