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English noun: reed | |||
| 1. | reed (plant) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | graminaceous plant, gramineous plant | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | Arundo conspicua, Arundo donax, carrizo, Chionochloa conspicua, common reed, ditch reed, giant reed, Phragmites communis, toetoe, toitoi | ||
| 2. | Reed (person) 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) | ||
| Synonyms | John Reed | ||
| Instance hypernym | commie, communist, journalist | ||
| 3. | Reed (person) United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) | ||
| Synonyms | Walter Reed | ||
| Instance hypernym | operating surgeon, sawbones, surgeon | ||
| 4. | reed (artifact) a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it | ||
| Samples | The clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece. | ||
| Synonyms | vibrating reed | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | vibrator | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | double reed | ||
| 5. | reed (artifact) a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed | ||
| Synonyms | beating-reed instrument, reed instrument | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | double reed, double-reed instrument, free-reed, single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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