Wind element (4 letters)

{ Answer }

REED

{ Related Clues }

Cattail
Rush
Stalk
Accordion part
Bassoon, e.g.
Bassoon or oboe
Cattail, e.g.
Coarse grass
Donna or Rex
Harmonica part
Hautboy, e.g.
Hollow stem
Kind of organ
Knicks' manager
Marsh grass
Marsh growth
Marsh plant
Melodeon part
Mouthpiece attachment
Musical instrument
Oboe or sax
Oboe or saxophone
Oboist's need
Pastoral pipe
Portland college
Protagonist of "Reds"
Rush, e.g.
Sax or oboe
Stalk by a stream
Swamp growth
Swamp thing
Tall grass
Walter or Donna
Willis or Donna
Willis or Walter
Army surgeon Walter
Bit for a basket weaver
Corrugation on a coin's edge
Hollow-stemmed plant
Pearl Buck's "The Living ___"
Sax player's need
"Valentines and Vitriol" author
Willis of N.B.A. fame
Yellow-fever pioneer

{ Tags }

bassoon, clarinet, college, critic, donna, eg, grass, growth, hollow, marsh, oboe, oboists, part, pipe, plant, purchase, reed, rex, stalk, walter, willis

{ Notes }

The answer REED is very common and appears about once every 46.0 puzzles.

{ Definition }

REED as a noun:

1. tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

2. (Reed, John 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)

3. (Reed, Walter Reed) = United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

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"

5. (beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed) = a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed