papyrus
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans
Types & categories
- paper hypernym
Sense 2 noun
tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
Types & categories
- sedge hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Cyperus member holonym
Sense 3 noun
a document written on papyrus
Types & categories
- document hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | paper |
| 2 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Cyperus |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sedge |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | document |