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Definition of Reedbeds
1. reedbed [n] - See also: reedbed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reedbeds
Literary usage of Reedbeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"Many areas can be difficult or impossible to reach due to variable water levels
and constantly changing positions of dense floating reedbeds. ..."
2. The South Australian Company: A Study in Colonisation by George Sutherland (1898)
"From his examination of the reedbeds and their adjacent places he had formed a
most unfavourable opinion of all the land, which was liable to become swampy ..."
3. The Odyssey by Homer (1905)
"Now when we drew nigh The sheer wall of the city, round the town Into a thicket
we crept close to lie; " Among the swamps and reedbeds crouching low Under ..."
4. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"... down narrow lanes and under low archways, into the dim mysterious heart of
the vast reedbeds, where dwelt bird and reptile and water beast. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"... and whole villages were ruined because the fishing industry was made impossible;
in the summer the troops actually shelled the reedbeds with shrapnel, ..."
6. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"... a half-dried stream, little more than a string of pools and reedbeds, winding
down through the sun-scorched plain. Next morning we started for another ..."
7. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1881)
"... Stph. One specimen taken in March with a lamp amongst the reedbeds in the
creek at Parramatta. ..."
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