paper plant

Questions about paper plant

What does paper plant mean?

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

What is another word for paper plant?

Close synonyms include papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper rush, Cyperus papyrus. 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 paper plant a common word?

paper plant 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.