reed - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

Synonyms

• beating-reed instrument
• reed
• reed instrument

More generic

• wood
• woodwind
• woodwind instrument

More specific

• double reed
• double-reed instrument
• free-reed
• single-reed instrument
• single-reed woodwind

Noun

a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

Synonyms

• reed
• vibrating reed

More generic

• vibrator

More specific

• double reed

Noun

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

Synonyms

• Reed
• Walter Reed

Noun

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)

Synonyms

• John Reed
• Reed

Noun

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

Synonyms

• reed

More generic

• graminaceous plant
• gramineous plant

More specific

• Arundo conspicua
• Arundo donax
• Chionochloa conspicua
• Phragmites communis
• carrizo
• common reed
• ditch reed
• giant reed
• toetoe
• toitoi

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