papyrus 
1. paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans • Hypernyms: paper 2. tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times • Syn: Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper rush, paper plant, Cyperus papyrus • Hypernyms: sedge • Member Holonyms: Cyperus, genus Cyperus 3. a document written on papyrus • Hypernyms: document, written document, papers
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