1. Tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fibre that served many purposes in historic times
   "Ancient Egyptians made scrolls from papyrus stems";
   - Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper rush, paper plant, Cyperus papyrus
    
2. Paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans
   "The ancient Egyptian scroll was written on papyrus"
    
3. A document written on papyrus
   "The archaeologists carefully unrolled the ancient papyrus"

Derived forms: papyri, papyruses

Type of: doc [informal], document, paper, papers, sedge, written document

Part of: Cyperus, genus Cyperus

Encyclopedia: Papyrus