Definition of Reed

Noun

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

15 unscramble word found using the letters reed.
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