pulpous

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The feeling of their velvety, pulpous skin remains with me to this day as a palpable memory of childhood.

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  1. Consisting of or resembling pulp; pulpy. The redstreak, … whose pulpous fruit With gold irradiate and vermilion, shines Tempting. J. Philips, Cider, i.

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  • The feeling of their velvety, pulpous skin remains with me to this day as a palpable memory of childhood. —  Green Options
  • Prickly, and pulpous, and blistering, and blue, _60 —  The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2
  • I had now entered the high, overhanging swamp, where the shaggy trees, the looping vines, and the rank, pulpous undergrowth grew thick on both sides, reaching far back, a wet, heavy wilderness without a path, except for the silent feet of the mink and the otter, and the more silent feet of the creek, here a narrow stream winding darkly down through the shadows. —  Roof and Meadow
 

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  1. = French pulpeux = Spanish Portuguese pulposo = Italian polposo, pulpy, from Latin pulposus, fleshy, from pulpa, the fleshy portion of a body, solid flesh: see pulp.
 

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