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say it: reed
reed is a noun meaning "tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites". It carries 5 recorded senses.
tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
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)
United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
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”
a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.