paper rush

Questions about paper rush

What does paper rush mean?

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

What is another word for paper rush?

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

paper rush 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.