1. (

• papyrus

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

2. (

• 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 ;

3. (

• papyrus ,

) a document written on papyrus ;