papyrus

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pa·py·rus /pəˈpaɪrəs/ noun (plural papyruses or papyri /-raɪ/)  1. [uncountable]HBP a plant like grass that grows in water 纸莎草2. [countable, uncountable]SHTC a type of paper made from papyrus and used in ancient Egypt, or a piece of this paper 〔古埃及用的〕纸莎草纸

Examples from the Corpus

papyrus• He remembered the floggings which, when he was a student, had followed the botching of a papyrus.• Speech became eternal, thanks to certain marks on stone and clay and papyrus.• It was hurriedly written on a scrap of papyrus which had been used and scraped clean several times before.• Waterfowl and stylized papyrus flowers recur, as do simplified outlines of chariots.• The contents of the papyrus are a commentary on the mythical poetry of Orpheus.• Thus, we see a two-fold dimension within the view of the papyrus.• We could see the moon over the papyrus swamps.Origin papyrus (1300-1400) Latin Greek papyros

pa·py·rus nounChineseSyllable  

plant that grass a like grows water Corpus in

papyrus
pa‧py‧rus /pəˈpaɪrəs/ noun (plural papyruses or papyri /-raɪ/)1. [uncountable] a plant like grass that grows in water
2. [uncountable and countable] a type of paper made from papyrus and used in ancient Egypt, or a piece of this paper

pa·pyrusBrE /pəˈpaɪrəs/ 🔊NAmE /pəˈpaɪrəs/ 🔊 noun (

plural

pa·pyri BrE /pəˈpaɪriː/ 🔊 NAmE /pəˈpaɪriː/ 🔊 ) [uncountable] a tall plant with thick stems that grows in water 纸莎草 [uncountable] paper made from the stems of the papyrus plant, used in ancient Egypt for writing and drawing on （古埃及用的）纸莎草纸 [countable] a document or piece of paper made of papyrus （写在纸莎草纸上的）文献，文稿