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n. A tall, aquatic, Mediterranean sedge (Cyperus papyrus) having numerous drooping rays grouped in umbels. Also called Egyptian paper rush, paper plant.

n. A material on which to write made from the pith or the stems of this sedge, used especially by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.

n. A document written on this material.

n. A plant in the sedge family, Cyperus papyrus, native to the Nile river valley.

n. A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.

n. A scroll or document written on papyrus.

n. A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.

n. The material upon which the ancient Egyptians wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed.

n. A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus.

n. The paper -reed or -rush, Cyperus Papyrus (Papyrus antiquorum), abounding on marshy river-banks in Abyssinia, Palestine, and Sicily, now almost extinct in Egypt.

n. An ancient scroll, book, or other document, or a fragment of the same, written on papyrus.

n. paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans

n. a document written on papyrus

n. tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times

"Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists."

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