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| 1. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 55 | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (music,sexuality) mechanical device consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that is fitted into the mouthpiece of woodwind instruments and that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it | |
| Synonyms: | vibrating_reed | |
| Related terms: | mechanical_device vibrator double_reed | |
| 3. | [ noun ] (botany) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites | |
| Related terms: | gramineous_plant ditch_reed giant_reed toetoe | |
| 4. | [ noun ] (politics,writing,news) United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the American Communist Labor Party in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920) | |
| Synonyms: | john_reed | |
| Related terms: | journalist communist | |
| 5. | [ noun ] Man's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 661 | |
| 6. | [ noun ] (medicine,work,surgery) American physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) | |
| Synonyms: | Walter_Reed | |
| Related terms: | surgeon | |
| 7. | [ noun ] (music) a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed | |
| Synonyms: | beating-reed_instrument | |
| Related terms: | woodwind double-reed_instrument single-reed_instrument free-reed double_reed | |
| Similar spelling: |
Reedy red rete Reid redo Redd Reda read retie Reidy Reddy ready Reade reheat redeye ret red-eye Red_Tai red_haw Reta reit |
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