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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

... dollars to put into this marsh pulp business, if I can have any figure in the management. ...

— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester

... rain, its colour, the material of the nest, and the position of the entrance. Is the opening ever deserted? How many wasps enter and how many leave the nest in a minute? Try to follow one and watch what he does. Wasps may be found biting wood from an old board fence. This they chew into pulp, and from this pulp their paper is made. Get the children to verify this by observations. If the nest is likely to become a nuisance, smoke out the wasps, take the nest carefully down, and use it for indoor study, examining the inside of the nest to ascertain the nature ...

— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study • Ontario Ministry of Education

... method was followed. In their case no attempt was made to extract the sac, but the entire fish was crushed, together with its shell, and after salt had been added in the proportion of twenty ounces to a hundred pounds of the pulp, three days were allowed for maceration; heat was then applied, and when, by repeated skimming, the coarse particles had been removed, the dye was left in a liquid state at the bottom. It was necessary ...

— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson

... pineapple; add grape fruit pulp and seeded white grapes; cover with hot sugar and water syrup and let stand until cold; flavor with sherry and serve in cocktail glasses that have been chilled by filling with ice an hour before ...

— Stevenson Memorial Cook Book • Various

... from their mothers (to minister to the debaucheries of these governors and their officers) and then brought back to tell the terrible story to other unfortunate creatures destined to the same fate; the horrible brutality of sentences, by virtue of which the flesh of the victims was reduced to pulp under the eyes of the judges—the revelation of all these things leaves one's mind possessed with feelings of terror and horror, sufficient in themselves to justify any reprisals that negro races might inflict upon ...

— The Schemes of the Kaiser • Juliette Adam

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