papyrus
A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley, paper reed.
Other meanings
A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.
A scroll or document written on papyrus.
A kind of
- paper
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "πάπυρος".
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This definition is adapted from “papyrus” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.