Reedlike example sentences
reedlike
definition
- adjective form of reed
reed
noun
reed (noun) · reeds (plural noun) · common reed (noun) · common reeds (plural noun)
- a tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.
- used in names of plants similar to the reed and growing in wet habitats, e.g. bur reed.
- reeds growing in a mass or used as material, especially for making thatch or household items:
- the tall, thin, straight stalk of a reed, used especially as material for thatching.
- a rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from straw:
- an arrow.
- a weak or impressionable person:
- a piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, that vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical instruments, as in the mouthpiece of a clarinet or oboe, at the base of some organ pipes, and as part of a set in the accordion and harmonica:
- a wind instrument played with a reed.
- an organ stop with reed pipes.
- an electrical contact used in a magnetically operated switch or relay:
- a comblike implement (originally made from reed or cane) used by a weaver to separate the threads of the warp and correctly position the weft.
- a set of semicylindrical adjacent moldings like reeds laid together.