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Synonyms cyperus papyrus, egyptian paper reed, egyptian paper rush, paper plant, paper rush
Type of sedge
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Type of papers, document, written document
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Type of paper

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Dwarf papyrus had similar total biomass as pickerelweed, but less shoot biomass.
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Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood.
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However, Mayan paper was more durable and a better writing surface than papyrus.
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The stream and pond are home to impatiens, ferns, hostas, cattails and papyrus.
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New Comedy is known primarily from the substantial papyrus fragments of Menander.
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A second papyrus text was purchased in Egypt by an American missionary in 1890.
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Plants are those common in dry subtropical and tropical lands, such as papyrus.
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Riverside's Patricia Barnes had no use for the state-dictated papyrus, either.
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The papyrus sheet also featured a second language, one never before seen in Egypt.
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  • Paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans
  • Tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
  • A document written on papyrus
  • Papyrus is a thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt.
  • Papyrus is a Belgian comic book series, written and illustrated by Lucien de Gieter. The story takes place in Ancient Egypt. It was first published in 1974 in the Spirou magazine in the form of episodes.
  • Papyrus (1920-1941) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse bred in Ireland. Out of the mare Miss Matty, he was sired by Tracery whose sire was Rock Sand.
  • Papyrus is an Open Source UML 2 tool based on Eclipse and licensed under the EPL. It can either be used as a standalone tool or as an Eclipse plugin.
  • Papyrus is a widely available typeface designed by Chris Costello, a graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer.
  • (Papyri (chronology)) This List of Ancient Egyptian Papyri includes some of the better known individual papyri written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic or in Greek. Excluded are papyri found abroad or containing Biblical texts which are listed in separate lists.