pulp Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any soft or soggy mass
    mush.
    • he pounded it to a pulp
  2. noun a soft moist part of a fruit
    flesh.
  3. noun a mixture of cellulose fibers
  4. noun an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper
    pulp magazine.
  5. noun the soft inner part of a tooth
  6. verb remove the pulp from, as from a fruit
  7. verb reduce to pulp
    • pulp fruit
    • pulp wood

WordNet

Pulp noun
Etymology
L. pulpa flesh, pith, pulp of fruit: cf. F. pulpe.
Definitions
  1. 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. B. Edwards. (d) The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.
Pulp transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Pulped ; present participle & verbal noun Pulping
Definitions
  1. To reduce to pulp.
  2. 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. B. Edwards.

Webster 1913