Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun common_reed
1 sense of common reed
Sense 1
ditch reed, common reed, carrizo, Phragmites communis -- (tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts)
=> reed -- (tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites)