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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 timesplay

  Familiarity information: PAPER PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PAPER PLANT (noun)


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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