| n. | 1. | (Bot.) 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. |
| 2. | 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. | |
| 3. | A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., |
| Noun | 1. | papyrus - paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans |
| 2. | papyrus - tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times | |
| 3. | papyrus - a document written on papyrus |
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