woodwind

A wind instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of reeds in the mouthpiece, as a bassoon, clarinet, oboe, or saxophone, or by the passing of air across the mouthpiece, as a flute.

The section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwind instruments.

Woodwind instruments or their players considered as a group.

Any (mostly wooden) musical instrument which produce sound by the player blowing into them, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.

Related to a woodwind instrument.

any wind instrument other than the brass instruments