Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun papyrus

3 senses of papyrus

Sense 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)
       => paper -- (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)

Sense 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)
       => sedge -- (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)

Sense 3
papyrus -- (a document written on papyrus)
       => document, written document, papers -- (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))