papyrus   (Sound)

The noun papyrus has 3 senses

• papyrus -- (paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans)


• papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper rush, paper plant, Cyperus papyrus -- (tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times)


• papyrus -- (a document written on papyrus)