Epitome of thinness (4 letters)

{ Answer }

REED

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{ Tags }

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