reed

Definition (noun): tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

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)

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

Definition (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

Definition (noun): a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed