Papyrus

Word PAPYRUS
Character 7
Hyphenation pa py rus
Pronunciations /pəˈpaɪɹəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Papyrus"

What do we mean by papyrus?

An aquatic sedge (Cyperus papyrus) native to Africa, having a tall stem and an umbellate inflorescence with numerous arching rays. noun

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

A document written on this material. noun

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

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

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. noun

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. noun

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

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

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

A scroll or document written on papyrus. noun

Paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans noun

A document written on papyrus noun

Tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times noun

(usually uncountable) A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley.

(usually uncountable) A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.

A scroll or document written on papyrus.

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The word "papyrus" in example sentences

The Egyptian byblus or papyrus (_Cyperus papyrus_) was perhaps the most valuable of all the vegetables of the Empire. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

This papyrus is the property of the Egypt Exploration Fund, and Prof. Eugène Revillout, of the Egyptian Department of the Louvre, has undertaken to translate it. ❋ Unknown (1891)

Also any menu written in papyrus font immediately turns me off to its food. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Her head and her beautiful black hair are now in the Ethnographical Department of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, and her precious papyrus is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. ❋ Unknown (1891)

That papyrus is now among the treasures of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and all that is preserved of its possessor – her skull and her lovely hair – are now in the South Kensington Museum, London. ❋ Unknown (1891)

There, below "papyrus" -- and just above paquebot* -- the French words in between yielded the answer: ❋ Unknown (2008)

There, below "papyrus"--and just above paquebot*--the French words in between yielded the answer: ❋ Unknown (2008)

The manuscript itself is a little roll of papyrus, which is a kind of thick paper made from beaten reeds, very commonly used in ancient Egypt and the whole Middle East, apparently, though very little of it has survived. ❋ King, Laurie R. (1996)

There is a papyrus in the British Museum containing medical prescriptions which was written about 1200 B.C.; and the famous EBERS papyrus, which is devoted to medical matters, is reckoned to date from about the year 1550 B.C. ❋ Unknown (1969)

There was a kind of paper called papyrus, made from a reed which grew mostly in Egypt, but this was expensive. ❋ Elbert Jay Benton (N/A)

Our knowledge of the subject rests largely upon the so-called papyrus Rhind,10 which is a sort of mythological hand-book of the ancient Egyptians. ❋ Unknown (1904)

When an Egyptian wanted to make a book, he gathered the stems of a kind of reed called the papyrus, which grew in some parts of ❋ James Baikie (1898)

The text of this remarkable story is written in the hieratic character upon a roll of papyrus, which is preserved in the ❋ Unknown (1895)

Either von Kerber's calculations were at fault, or the papyrus was a madman's screed. ❋ Louis Tracy (1895)

As, however, the colophon is unmistakably clear as to date, and as that date is but two years subsequent to the events narrated in the poem, we may at least assume that the papyrus is a contemporary document. ❋ Unknown (1891)

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