Reed synonyms

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arrow
Something, such as a directional symbol, that is similar to an arrow in form or function.
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plant
The buildings, fixtures, and equipment, including machinery, tools, and instruments, necessary for an industrial operation or an institution:
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stalk
The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
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grass
(Uncountable) A lawn.
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cane
(Uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
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moss (related)
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stem
The definition of a stem is the main stalk of a plant.
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birch (related)
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allen (related)
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carr (related)
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morton (related)
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weed (related)
The definition of a weed is a plant that grows easily but is not intentionally being grown or may even be harmful to other plants around it.
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arundinaceous
Of or like a reed
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reedlike
Resembling a reed or some aspect of one.
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instrument
Any of various devices designed or used to produce musical sound, as a piano, drum, violin, oboe, etc.
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oboe
A slender woodwind instrument with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece, having a range of three octaves and a penetrating, poignant sound.
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papyrus
A tall water plant (Cyperus papyrus) of the sedge family, abundant in the Nile region of Egypt and widely cultivated as an ornamental
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pipe
A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
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sedge
Any of the plants of the sedge family often found on wet ground or in water, having usually triangular, solid stems, three rows of narrow, pointed leaves, and minute flowers borne in spikelets
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spear
A long blade or shoot, as of grass
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tule
Any of several bulrushes that grow in marshy lowlands of the southwest United States.
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double-reed (related)
A double-reed instrument
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beating-reed instrument
a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
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reed-instrument
A musical wind instrument played by blowing air trough a reed, such as oboe or clarinet.
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vibrating reed
a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
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walter reed
United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
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dart
(Zoology) A fish; the dace.
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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)
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Reed Sentence Examples

  • Papyrus was also known to the Assyrians, who called it " the reed of Egypt."

  • The rest is open rice-land, alternating with great stretches of grass, reed jungle and bamboo scrub, much of which is under water for quite three months of the year.

  • Tangs show that the shaft was a reed, sockets show that it was of wood.

  • The four leading Maya signs called kan, muluc, ix, cauac corresponded in their position to the four Aztec signs rabbit, reed, flint, house, but the meanings of the Maya signs are, unlike the Aztec, very obscure.

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