Any of the grasses constituting the genera Phragmites and Arundo, which grow in water or marshy ground, often in large stands, and are…

(Now English regional (southern and south-western).) A single plant of this; a reed.

(a) the giant reed, Arundo donax (now rare); (b) a phragmites, esp. the common reed, Phragmites communis (also called pool reed).

the common reed, Phragmites australis (cf. pole-reed n. (b) at pole, n.1 compounds 2, pill-reed n. at pill, n.1 compounds).

The common reed, Phragmites australis; (also) any of various grasses, typically tall and growing in moist or wet soil, thought to resemble this; esp.…

the common reed, Phragmites australis.

(see quot.).

A cosmopolitan genus of reeds, the members of which have strong, erect stems, flat, linear leaves, and a plumose panicle of flowers; (also in form…

The native name for various tall reed-like grasses of the genus Arundo, esp. A. conspicua, natives of New Zealand.

a kind of grass (Dactylis glomerata Latin); in early use, perhaps Sparganium simplex.

dialect (see quots.).

a West Indian species of reed, Arundo occidentalis.

An East African reed.

The common reed, Phragmites communis.

the common reed, Phragmites australis, as grown in East Anglia for use in thatching.