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PAPER PLANT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does paper plant mean?
• PAPER PLANT (noun)
The noun PAPER PLANT has 1 sense:
1. tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
Familiarity information: PAPER PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cyperus papyrus; Egyptian paper reed; Egyptian paper rush; paper plant; paper rush; papyrus
Hypernyms ("paper plant" is a kind of...):
sedge (grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers)
Holonyms ("paper plant" is a member of...):
Cyperus; genus Cyperus (type genus of Cyperaceae; grasslike rhizomatous herbs; cosmopolitan except very cold regions)
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