Synonym: Cyperus papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper plant, paper rush. Similar words: therapy, syrup, paper, pyre, papaya, pyramid, pyrrhic, newspaper. Meaning: [pə'paɪrəs] 
n. 1. paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans 2. tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times 3. a document written on papyrus.
n. 1. paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans 2. tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times 3. a document written on papyrus. 
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1, We could see the moon over the papyrus swamps.
2, In the derveni papyrus a different view is found.
3, Col. 10 of the Derveni papyrus draws attention to the violence perpetrated by one divine generation against another.
4, The contents of the papyrus are a commentary on the mythical poetry of Orpheus.
5, Waterfowl and stylized papyrus flowers recur, as do simplified outlines of chariots.
6, It was hurriedly written on a scrap of papyrus which had been used and scraped clean several times before.
7, Papyrus enabled the ancients to spread their religion to a wider audience.
8, The Egyptians wrote on papyrus.
9, He is holding a partially rolled papyrus scroll in his left hand.
10, Today, the papyrus documents everywhere are faced with danger of spontaneous combustion.
11, Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds thrive without water?
12, The Egyptians first used papyrus around the year 3000 B.C. to make a kind of paper.
13, For example, there is a papyrus discovered at Thebes offering a reward for a run - away slave.
14, The papyrus represents Lower Egypt and the lotus represents Upper Egypt.
15, In this photo released by Agence Papyrus the structure of the hand of the Statue of Liberty, designed by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, is seen inside a Paris studio around 1875.
16, Can papyrus shoot up without marsh ? Can reeds grow without water?
17, Surge rivers, ships of timber and boats of papyrus . The rain does not reach me.
18, The papyrus plant was also the symbol of Lower Egypt.
19, Papyrus: Egyptian reed form where the earliest form of paper was made.
20, They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.
21, Woollen cloth and timber were sent to Egypt in exchange for linen or papyrus.
22, But how to wring new information from a few old pieces of vellum and papyrus?
23, He remembered the floggings which, when he was a student,(http://sentencedict.com/papyrus.html) had followed the botching of a papyrus.
24, Speech became eternal, thanks to certain marks on stone and clay and papyrus.
25, Thus, we see a two-fold dimension within the view of the papyrus.
26, Cargo unloaded in the port was spectacular in both volume and quality. Marble, papyrus, jewels, gold, spices, silk, ivory, fur and linen arrived by the shipload.
27, In those days , paper was made from strips of the papyrus plant.
28, I rolled the strip around the stick and it finally revealed its secrets. I rewrote the coded message onto a papyrus.
29, Jonathan Barnes has painstakingly brought together the surviving Presocratic fragments in their original contexts, utilizing the latest research and a newly discovered major papyrus of Empedocles.
30, In fact, the name for Lower Egypt in hieroglyphs was shown as several papyrus plants growing out of the ground.