papyrus

IPA: pˈæpˈaɪrʌs

(usually uncountable) A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley, paper reed.
(usually uncountable) A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.
(countable) A scroll or document written on papyrus.

Examples of "papyrus" in Sentences

Also any menu written in papyrus font immediately turns me off to its food.
There, below "papyrus"--and just above paquebot*--the French words in between yielded the answer:
There, below "papyrus" -- and just above paquebot* -- the French words in between yielded the answer:
The Egyptian byblus or papyrus (_Cyperus papyrus_) was perhaps the most valuable of all the vegetables of the Empire.
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.
Specially characteristic of Egypt, though not altogether peculiar to it, were the papyrus and the lotus -- the _Cyperus papyrus_ and _Nymphæa lotus_ of botanists.
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.
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.