Category:Pulp

Pulp, n. Etym: [l. pulpa flesh, pith, pulp of fruit: cf. F. pulpe.]

Defn: 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 Pulp, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pulped; p. pr. & vb. n. Pulping.]

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.