reed
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(noun) 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 |
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Related Words: double reed, mechanical device |
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(noun) 1851-1902 |
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Synonyms: Walter Reed |
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Related Words: operating surgeon, sawbones, surgeon |
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(noun) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites |
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Related Words: Arundo conspicua, Arundo donax, Chionochloa conspicua, Phragmites communis, carrizo, common reed, ditch reed, giant reed, graminaceous plant, gramineous plant, toetoe, toitoi |
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(noun) a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed |
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Synonyms: beating-reed instrument |
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Related Words: double-reed instrument, free-reed, single-reed instrument, wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument |
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