Definitions for papyrus

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papyrus pa·py·rus

Spelling: [puh-pahy-ruh s]

IPA: /pəˈpaɪ rəs/

Papyrus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in papyrus (apprsuy).

Definitions for papyrus

noun

1. a tall, aquatic plant, Cyperus papyrus, of the sedge family, native to the Nile valley: the Egyptian subspecies, C. papyrus hadidii, thought to be common in ancient times, now occurs only in several sites.
2. a material on which to write, prepared from thin strips of the pith of this plant laid together, soaked, pressed, and dried, used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
3. an ancient document, manuscript, or scroll written on this material.

Origin of papyrus

1350-1400; Middle English papirus Latin papȳrus Greek pápȳros

Examples for papyrus

We have mummy wheat,—cloth of papyrus, which is a kind of straw.

Unfortunately, the papyrus was too fragile to allow for carbon testing of the ink.

The pond is edged by papyrus plants, which are alternately in blossom and in bud.

To make matters more complicated, a third-century fragment of papyrus found in ancient Egypt gives the number 616 instead of 666.

Wreaths of papyrus crowned these dishes with their green foliage.

Demetrius spoke no more, but arranged the sheets of papyrus that strewed the table.

This past week a new eBay auction announced the sale of “Ancient Egyptian papyrus with Greek letters—Bible.”

Francis Watson argued that all of the fragmentary sentences preserved on the papyrus are also found in the Gospel of Thomas.

papyrus, like the art of writing upon it, came originally from Egypt.

It was impossible to get it away without tearing the outer sheets of papyrus.