Word "PAPYRUS" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
Synonyms:
cyperus papyrus, egyptian paper reed, egyptian paper rush, paper plant, paper rush

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a document written on papyrus

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans

Crossword Clues for PAPYRUS

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Early writing material (SPRAY UP anagram) (7)
Tall aquatic Mediterranean plant from whose stern pith a kind of paper was made by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans (7)
Father mixed syrup with ancient writing material (7)
Spilt syrup on secretary's manuscript
Tall reed used to make an ancient writing material (7)
Assistant mixing up syrup to make writing material
Paper reed
Ancient paper Mirror Tea Time 05 Dec 2023
Drivel Yankee's written about game. Tut having read this before? The Telegraph Toughie 26 May 2023
Ancient Egyptian writing surface that was made from an aquatic plant
Scroll material Eugene Sheffer 20 Dec 2022
Ancient writing paper The Guardian Quick 27 May 2022
Old man, unusually spry, snatching University manuscript from long ago The Times Cryptic 19 Feb 2021
Old man, unusually spry, snatching University manuscript from long ago
Egyptian writing material The Times Concise 26 Aug 2020
Tall sedge of Pennsylvania pear genus
Scroll material Eugene Sheffer 26 Nov 2019
. Valueless year with Russian manuscript
Resort pays up to secure right old document The Sun Two Speed 03 Sep 2019
Egyptian paper The Sun Two Speed 03 Sep 2019
Smothering resistance, recklessly pays up for ancient document
Material for the Book of the Dead New York Times 01 Mar 2019
Material for the Book of the Dead
Briefly cough up taking runny syrup copyrighted presumably by the Egyptians Irish Times Crosaire 13 Oct 2018
Old writing scroll Premier Sunday 19 Aug 2018
Surreptitiously photograph your American manuscript
Paper-like material used to write scrolls
Scroll worthless reading matter on your meeting with American The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Aug 2017
Scroll material of old USA Today 25 Jul 2017
First to produce a syrup that's used in making paper
Suffer endless scramble to secure page in historic paper The Telegraph Toughie 29 Mar 2017
Ancient communication medium The Washington Post 10 Mar 2017
Ancient communication medium LA Times Daily 10 Mar 2017
Ancient communication medium
Scroll material of old
Pays up for recycling, putting in right kind of paper The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Oct 2016
Ancient paper The Telegraph Quick 05 May 2015
Ancient writing material The Telegraph Quick 14 Mar 2015
Ancient writing material The Times Concise 13 Feb 2015
Ancient document
Ancient writing material
Ancient document with syrup spread across a page
Egyptian stationery
Pharaoh's writing material
Book of the Dead, e.g.
What Xenophon wrote on.
Cleopatra's notepaper.
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