pulp
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pulp/pʌlp/
▶noun
- 1 a soft, wet, shapeless mass of material.
■ the soft fleshy part of a fruit.
■ a soft wet mass of fibres derived from rags or wood, used in making paper.
- 2 [as modifier] denoting popular or sensational writing that is generally regarded as being of poor quality.
- 3 vascular tissue filling the interior cavity and root canals of a tooth.
- 4 Mining pulverized ore mixed with water.
- 1 crush into a pulp.
- 2 withdraw (a publication) from the market and recycle the paper.
– derivatives
pulper noun,
pulpiness noun,
pulpy adjective (pulpier, pulpiest).
pulper noun,
pulpiness noun,
pulpy adjective (pulpier, pulpiest).
– origin ME: from L. pulpa; sense 2 is from the printing of such material on cheap paper.
'pulp' also found in these Oxford entries:
bagasse
- berry
- custard apple
- durian
- garnet
- gelignite
- genipapo
- grapefruit
- hardboard
- henequen
- hesperidium
- kumquat
- lyocell
- mash
- panada
- paper
- parenchyma
- paupiette
- pawpaw
- pease pudding
- pittosporum
- pomelo
- poplar
- pressboard
- purée
- root canal
- sieve
- spruce
- stone fruit
- strawboard
- sweetsop
- tamarind
- Tencel
- wallboard
- wasp
- watermelon
- wood pulp
