paper plant

paper plant
noun
tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times
Hypernyms: ↑sedge
Member Holonyms: ↑Cyperus, ↑genus Cyperus

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noun or paper reed or paper rush

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