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- noun Alternative spelling of
reed bed .
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Examples
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Clive blocked off the end of the reedbed, and Wayne, who has a wife and two children, borrowed ammunition from Clive and headed back into the riverbed.
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By now we had crowded her into the end of the reedbed.
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Female marsh harrier flying over a coastal reedbed.
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It even has a reedbed sewage system to process waste, with solid matter recycled as manure and liquid sewage reconstituted as clean drinking water.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Throne Shnayerson, Michael 2007
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"Conservationists are concerned that safety concerns for visiting aircraft will lead to the clearance of the reedbed, removing the roosting site for the swallows."
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Half choking, Soped managed to point to a reedbed.
The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002
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The bird, prized as a medieval banquet dish and hit by hunting and the loss of its reedbed habitat as wetlands were drained, became extinct in the UK in 1886.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Bearded Tits are lively, colourful characters, regularly performing as reedbed acrobats as they do their thing up and down the reed stems.
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Looking through binoculars from a hide at Strumpshaw Fen, Eric Wilkinson becomes instantly animated at the sight of otters flitting in and out of a distant reedbed.
EDP24 News 2010
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Other reedbed species - including marsh harriers, bearded tits, water rails and reed warblers - have also increased on the reserve since the improvements were carried out.
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