1. (

• reed

) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites ;

2. (

• Reed ,
• John_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) ;

3. (

• Reed ,
• Walter_Reed

) United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) ;

4. (

• reed ,
• vibrating_reed

) 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" ;

5. (

• beating-reed_instrument ,
• reed_instrument ,
• reed

) a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed ;