COMMON REED

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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

Synonyms:

carrizo; common reed; ditch reed; Phragmites communis

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Nouns denoting plants

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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