Result from Foreign Dictionaries (4 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Papyrus \Pa*py"rus\, n.; pl. {Papyri}. [L., fr. Gr. pa`pyros.
See {Paper}.]
1. (Bot.) A tall rushlike plant ({Cyperus Papyrus}) of the
Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in
Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and
about an inch thick.
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2. The material upon which the ancient Egyptians wrote. It
was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin
longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and
pressed.
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3. A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written
scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of Egypt or
Herculaneum.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
papyrus
n 1: paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips
and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks
and Romans
2: tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many
purposes in historic times [syn: {papyrus}, {Egyptian paper
reed}, {Egyptian paper rush}, {paper rush}, {paper plant},
{Cyperus papyrus}]
3: a document written on papyrus
From Latin-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-lat-eng]:
papyrus
paper
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Papyrus /papyːrus/
papyrusi
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
