cyperus papyrus

Questions about cyperus papyrus

What does cyperus papyrus mean?

cyperus papyrus means "tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times".

What is another word for cyperus papyrus?

Close synonyms include papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper rush, paper plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cyperus papyrus a common word?

cyperus papyrus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.