paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans
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tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
source: WordNet 3.0
a document written on papyrus
source: WordNet 3.0
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.
