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COMMON REED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does common reed mean?
• COMMON REED (noun)
The noun COMMON REED has 1 sense:
1. tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts
Familiarity information: COMMON REED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
carrizo; common reed; ditch reed; Phragmites communis
Hypernyms ("common reed" is a kind of...):
reed (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)
Holonyms ("common reed" is a member of...):
genus Phragmites; Phragmites (reeds of marshes and riversides in tropical or temperate regions)
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