- reed - tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
--1 is a kind of gramineous plant, graminaceous plant
--1 has particulars:toetoe, toitoi, Arundo conspicua, Chionochloa conspicua; giant reed, Arundo donax; ditch reed, common reed, carrizo, Phragmites communis - Reed, John Reed - 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)
--2 is a kind of journalist; communist, commie
- Reed, Walter Reed - United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
--3 is a kind of surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones
- reed, vibrating reed - a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it; "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"
--4 is a kind of vibrator
--4 has particulars: double reed- beating-reed instrument, reed - a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed
--5 is a kind of woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood
--5 has particulars:double-reed instrument, double reed; free-reed; single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind - Reed, John Reed - 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)