Also byblus. [L. biblus, Gr. βίβλος.] The papyrus or paper-reed; the inner bark of this plant.
1656. Cowley, Davideis, I. Wks. 1710, I. 316. Some writ in tender Barks … Some in Beasts Skins, and some in Biblos Reed.
1863. Ld. Lytton, Ring Amasis, I. II. I. v. 261. Some crumbling byblus or papyrus.
1875. Scrivener, Lect. Grk. Test., 8. ‘Bring with thee the books’ (of the biblus or papyrus plant).
