Papyrus Paper

Papyrus

Papyrus is a substance used in ancient times as a writing surface. Similar to thick paper, it was first known to have been used in Egypt as the papyrus plant from which it was created was once abundant across the Nile Delta. Papyrus was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Papyrus can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book.

Paper

Paper is a thin sheet of matted cellulose fibers. Largely derived from lignocellulose, paper is created from a pulp dissolved into a slurry that is drained and dried into sheets. Different types of paper are defined by constituent fiber, paper pulp, sizing, coating, paper size, paper density and grammage.

papyrus

Noun

1. A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley, paper reed.
2. A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.

paper

Noun

1. A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
2. Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

Adjective

1. Made of paper.
2. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper).