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noun

Pulp n. A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter. Specifically:

(a)

(Anat.) A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.

(b)

(Bot.) The soft, succulent part of fruit; as, the pulp of a grape.

(c)

The exterior part of a coffee berry.

(d)

The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.

verb

Pulp v. t. (past & past part. pulped; pres. part. pulping)

To reduce to pulp.

To deprive of the pulp, or integument. "The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine a man will pulp a bushel in a minute."

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Etymology of 'Pulp'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pulp" Quotes from Famous Books

... gift was thine. Whereat the hero, while the shooting spasm Had fastened on the lungs, seized him by the foot Where the ankle turns i' the socket, and, with a thought, Hurl'd on a surf-vex'd reef that showed i' the sea: And rained the grey pulp from the hair, the brain Being scattered with the blood. Then the great throng Saddened their festival with piteous wail For one in death and one in agony. And none had courage to approach my sire,— Convulsed upon the ground, then tossed i' the air With horrid yells and crying, till the ...

— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles

... she stopped, and from the light that played in her deep black eyes you would have thought that surely she was listening with the deepest attention. But the truth is that with all her little brain, with all her mouth, and with all her stomach, she was craving the yellow and odorous pulp of a melon which had been cut open and put on the table near two tall glasses half filled with snowy sherbet. For Zobeide was a turtle of the ordinary kind found in the grass of all the meadows around the city ...

— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne

... furnishes a fiber which is made into ropes and also manufactured into cloth. The fiber is so strong as to give rise to a common saying in Bengal, "as secure as an elephant bound with baobab rope." The pulp of the fruit is slightly acid, and the juice expressed from it is valued as a specific in putrid and pestilential fevers. The ashes of the fruit and bark, boiled in rancid palm oil, ...

— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders

... have been to put ourselves at once at a frightful disadvantage. The mammoth would have scented us immediately, and turned (as is the custom of these beasts), and we should have been trampled into a pulp in ...

— The Lost Continent • C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

... a rabbit from out of a poke Where never had rabbit lain; He could pulp your watch like an egg's red yoke And could give it you whole again; And the king he laughed, "Ha-ha," he laughed, Till they thumped on his back anon; And the other magicians went dancing daft To see the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 • Various

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