pulp

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The clerk, he has black glasses and halitosis and fingernails chewed to keratin pulp, teeth stained with cigarettes or chewing tobacco or coffee.

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  1. noun A soft moist shapeless mass of matter.
  2. noun The soft moist part of fruit.
  3. noun Plant matter remaining after a process, such as the extraction of juice by pressure, has been completed.

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  • The clerk, he has black glasses and halitosis and fingernails chewed to keratin pulp, teeth stained with cigarettes or chewing tobacco or coffee. —  Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 45
  • Uses: FOOD: Ripe fruits have a milky sweet pulp which is eaten (+++), the seed normally being discarded. —  Chapter 7
  • Uses: FOOD: The fruit pulp, which is eaten raw, has a strong acid taste. —  Chapter 7
  • It will be seen that by these means all the pulp is thoroughly and uniformly subjected to the bleaching agent and that the bleaching is gradually performed in all parts of the pulp, which is first acted upon by the weaker bleaching agent that has previously operated upon the pulp before treated, and that finally, when nearly bleached, the pulp is acted upon by the bleaching material of full strength, this action being far more efficient than when the materials are simply mixed together, the unbleached material with the strong bleaching agent, and allowed to remain together until the bleaching operation is finished, in which plan the bleaching agent loses its strength as the bleaching operation approaches completion, so that when the pulp is nearly bleached it is operated upon by a very weak bleaching agent. —  Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
  • 650-850 mm. Uses: FOOD: The ripe fruit has a black pulp which is mealy, sweet and edible (+++). —  Chapter 7
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Latin pulpa, fleshy parts of the body, fruit pulp.

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  1. = French pulpe = Spanish pulpa = Portuguese Italian polpa, from Latin pulpa, the fleshy part of an animal body, etc., solid flesh, the pulp of fruit, etc.
  2. from pulp, n.
 

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