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tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
Other meanings
2. noun
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)
3. noun
United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
4. noun
a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
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