pulp

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
This pulp is the eatable part.

View all »
Definitions (35)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (11)

  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.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (15)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (7)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 98 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

juice ·  rind ·  jelly ·  tomato ·  paste ·  syrup ·  soup ·  berry ·  vegetable ·  husk ·  gum ·  rice

Used in the same contextWord Family

pulp:   pulping
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

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

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  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.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/pəlp/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a week.

Recently looked up

evasive · coof · passe · belinda · villainous-looking

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

a for 'orses · snarfillicate my snackrabbit · j for cakes · chic flick · rhodorhinorangifericide