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/pɐpˈaɪɹəs/
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NOUN
- a document written on papyrus
- paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans
- tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
How To Use papyrus In A Sentence
- Around 3000 B.C., the Egyptians developed a writing material using papyrus, the plant for which paper is named.
- There are high precipices that are backed by the papyrus and ambatch swamps that form the delta of the Kagera River.
- In fact, the word Bible comes from the word Byblos, another Carthaginian port from which the majority of Egyptian papyrus was exported. Blowback
- Jensom led them all into a bright room, filled with monks inscribing words of wisdom onto tablets and papyrus.
- Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists. Ancient Egypt
- The literature of ancient Egypt was written on rolls of papyrus, that of ancient Mesopotamia on clay tablets, that of ancient China on strips of bamboo held together with string, and so forth.
- Pages printed on one or both sides, gathered into quires or folios, superseded papyrus and parchment rolls in the fourth century CE.
- The soft pad of papyrus reed sandals made me turn around.
- In descending the Shire, we found concealed in the broad belt of papyrus round the lakelet Pamalombe, into which the river expands, A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
- Set the lily at the bottom of the container; the papyrus and forget-me-not should be positioned on stacked bricks so that their crowns are two-to-four inches below the water's surface.