Pulp (?), n. [L. pulpa flesh, pith, pulp of fruit: cf. F. pulpe.]
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
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B. Edwards. (d)
The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.
© Webster 1913.
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.
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