Dictionary Check: reed
"reed" is a valid word!
Scrabble
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Words with Friends
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Definition
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)
noun
tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
noun
United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
noun
a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
Example:
"the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"
noun
a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
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