reed

reed

名词 reed:

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

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)

同义词:John Reed

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

同义词:Walter Reed

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

同义词:vibrating reed

a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

同义词:beating-reed instrument, reed instrument

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