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papyrus
/pəˈpaɪɹəs/
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What does papyrus mean?
noun
- A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley, paper reed.
- A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.
- A scroll or document written on papyrus.
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An account of the papyrus is included in the Introduction to "Legends of the Gods", pp.
The camp looked very cool and inviting under its wide high trees, with the river slipping by around the islands of papyrus.
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When the old Egyptians wrote books, instead of paper they used the dried leaves of a reed called "papyrus," which grows in the Nile.
As regards medical science, we have the Berlin papyrus, which, although of a later period, refers with careful specification to a medical literature of the first dynasty.
It is doubtful if they are today in a very much more advanced condition than were the Egyptians at the time when the Ebers Papyrus was written.