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- tall reed-like water-plant with thick fibrous stems used by the Ancient Egyptians to make paper [Barron]
More word meanings for papyrus
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- Wiktionary:
- papyrus @ wiktionary
- WordNet:
- papyrus @ wordnet.princeton.edu
- Merriam-Webster Online:
- papyrus @ M-W.com
- MSN Encarta:
- papyrus @ Encarta
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
- papyrus @ AHD provided by Yahoo! Education
- Answers.com:
- papyrus @ Answers.com
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