tangbo : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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tangbo [tang.bû.] :

Phragmites vulgaris (n.) [tanom]; reed (n.)

Derivatives of tangbo

Glosses:

reed
n. (plant)	1. reed	tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
	~ graminaceous plant, gramineous plant	cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and long narrow leaves.
	~ arundo conspicua, chionochloa conspicua, toitoi, toetoe	used by Maoris for thatching.
	~ arundo donax, giant reed	large rhizomatous perennial grasses found by riversides and in ditches having jointed stems and large grey-white feathery panicles.
	~ carrizo, common reed, ditch reed, phragmites communis	tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts.
n. (person)	2. john reed, 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).
	~ commie, communist	a socialist who advocates communism.
	~ journalist	a writer for newspapers and magazines.
n. (person)	3. reed, walter reed	United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902).
	~ operating surgeon, sawbones, surgeon	a physician who specializes in surgery.
n. (artifact)	4. 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"
	~ double reed	a pair of joined reeds that vibrate together to produce the sound in some woodwinds.
	~ vibrator	a mechanical device that vibrates.; "a reed is the vibrator that produces the sound"
n. (artifact)	5. beating-reed instrument, reed, reed instrument	a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed.
	~ double-reed instrument, double reed	a woodwind that has a pair of joined reeds that vibrate together.
	~ free-reed	a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture.
	~ single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind	a beating-reed instrument with a single reed (as a clarinet or saxophone).
	~ woodwind, woodwind instrument, wood	any wind instrument other than the brass instruments.