papyrus reed

A little to one side stood an isolated clump of papyrus reeds.

Papyrus-Material made from papyrus reeds, used as writing and painting material.

Because of the low amount of wood, boats were made with bundled papyrus reeds.

This lemur is the only primate specifically adapted to living in papyrus reeds.

Thorny acacia bushes gave way to mingled willows and papyrus reeds.

Screened by the papyrus reeds, all hands turned out to tranship the cargo of dhurra to the steamer.

When he found the entrance to a lagoon he pressed the sharp bows into the dense stand of papyrus reeds that blocked the mouth.

"Just like the boats made from papyrus reeds that the pharaohs used to sail the Nile during the Age of the Pyramids."

A line of men in leather aprons passed carrying bundles that Arthur recognized as papyrus reeds, from his project on ancient Egypt last semester.

Crumbled milestones poking out of papyrus reeds attest to a road, now a potholed track barely suitable for bicycles, that once was alive with buses.

The surf knocked her sprawling, but she dragged herself up again and staggered up the narrow beach to find shelter in a patch of papyrus reeds.

For some calmer insights, Mr. Dejace played a bird call on a small tape recorder and waited for a live response from the papyrus reeds.

The Ancient Egyptians built boats from papyrus reeds, which were widely cultivated along the Nile River and Delta.

Amidships Blaine and Centaine lolled on cushions of raw-hide stuffed with the fluffy heads of the papyrus reeds.

This makes sense, for an "ark of bulrushes" would be a little boat made out of papyrus reeds, which is just the sort of thing an Egyptian would make.

In papyrus reeds and desolate flatlands on the western shore of Lake Victoria facing the Sese Islands, there is a fishing village called Kasensero.

The boat was built by boatmen from Lake Chad in the Republic of Chad with papyrus reeds from Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

Then the bull opened his jaws in a pink and cavernous gape and showed the curved ivory tusks that could scythe the papyrus reeds or guillotine a full-grown oxen into separate pieces.

Seneb is also not shown carrying out typical male activities such as hunting, which was presumably impractical for someone of his stature, though one relief shows him pulling on papyrus reeds to guide his boat through the marshes of the Nile Delta.

The sparse winter growth of leaves on the trees was still, not a blade of yellow grass stirred in the glade across the river-bed, and the fluffy papyrus reeds below the bank ceased their perpetual nodding and bowing and stood as though listening intently.

Unlike other bamboo lemurs, the Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur does not eat bamboo; instead, it feeds on the stems of papyrus reeds, shoots of Phragmites communis, and two types of grasses (Echinocochla crusgalli and Leersia hexandra).

Examples of such staffs featuring coiled snakes in mythology are the caduceus of Hermes, the Rod of Asclepius, the staff of Moses, and the papyrus reeds and deity poles entwined by a single serpent Wadjet, dating to earlier than 3000 BCE.