papyrus

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• ⇰ A tall rushlike plant (<spn>Cyperus Papyrus</spn>) 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.
• ⇰ 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.
• ⇰ A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., <pluf>pl.</pluf>, written scrolls made of papyrus; <as>as, the <ex>papyri</ex> of Egypt or Herculaneum</as>.