Other forms: pulps
Pulp is a soft wet mass, especially of crushed fruit or wood. Orange pulp, wood pulp, beaten to a pulp.
Paper is made from wood pulp, and the mechanical kind yellows because the lignin is left in while the chemical kind does not. Pulp fiction is named for the cheap paper it was printed on. In a tooth the pulp is the living centre.
1nounpulpA soft wet mass, especially of crushed fruit or wood.
“Mash the bananas into a pulp before adding them to the mixture.”
pulp is a soft mass.
Latin pulpa means the fleshy part of fruit or of an animal. The word has kept that sense of soft flesh in every direction it has spread.
Latin
pulpa
Middle English
pulpe
English, today
pulp
From Middle English pulpe, from Latin pulpa.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA