Papyrus Reed

Cyperus papyrus

Cyperus papyrus, better known by the common names papyrus sedge, papyrus, paper reed, Indian matting plant, or Nile grass, is a species of aquatic flowering plant belonging to the sedge family Cyperaceae. It is a tender herbaceous perennial, forming tall stands of reed-like swamp vegetation in shallow water.

Reed (plant)

Reed is the common name for several tall, grass-like plants found in wetlands.

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.

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.

reed

Noun

1. Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
2. The hollow stem of these plants.

Verb

1. To thatch.
2. To mill or mint with reeding.