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Definition of Paper rush
1. Noun. Tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times.
Generic synonyms: Sedge
Group relationships: Cyperus, Genus Cyperus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paper Rush
Literary usage of Paper rush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Family Encyclopedia: Or, Compendium of Universal Knowledge by Charles Augustus Goodrich (1835)
"... growing chiefly in Egypt about the banks of the Nile; though it was also found
in India; and Pliny describes the papyrus or paper rush as having a root ..."
2. Fruits of Enterprize Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia by Sarah Atkins, Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson, Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1821)
"... or. paper rush, my love, which grew on the banks of the Nile, and of which
the ancients made clothes, sails, domestic utensils and writing paper. ..."
3. Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia by Sarah Atkins, Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1824)
"They pressed the leaves that surrounded the v stem, flattening and smoothing
them; I suppose the leaves of the paper rush clung round each other, ..."
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