giant reed

Questions about giant reed

What is another word for giant reed?

It depends which giant reed you mean. In the sense “large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles”, the synonyms are Arundo donax. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of giant reed?

WordNet records no antonym for giant reed. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for giant reed come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of giant reed

• Full entry for giant reedAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for giant reedWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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