pith

• But before long, reality   always had to return and my pith--yes, I guess it was pity-for you   became tempered with the knowledge that there were many parents whose lives will never be the same because of you TB: I guess I was arrogant, at least in your eyes. —  TEDBUNDY
• The sago furnishes food; and after the pith has been extracted, the outer part forms a rough covering for the rougher floor, on which the farmer sleeps. —  The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
• The leaf traces from the leaf rachis to the pith show heavier from the bottom buds of the branch than at the tip, and the pith is usually solid at the bottom of the branch Roots:= When the nut of the black walnut germinates in the soil the lobes or cotyledons do not rise above the ground like the cotyledons of the bean but remain in the nut shell under ground, and are broken off in the growth of the seedling, the root going down and the stem rising above the ground. —  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947
• There I sat, each second rising higher and higher, balanced like the gilt ball of pith, which is borne up by the vertical stream of the fountain which plays in the inner court of your highness's palace. —  The Pacha of Many Tales
• At the tip the wood around the pith is thin MR. O'ROURKE: Some years ago Dr. MacDaniels stated that a good scion may be made with the tip of the scion in the one-year wood and the base of the scion in the two-year wood Mr. Bernath at Poughkeepsie, New York, has done some bench grafting of hickory. —  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952

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