Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pulp"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pulp \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. --B. Edwards.
(d) The material of which paper is made when ground up and
suspended in water.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pulp
n 1: any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp"
2: a soft moist part of a fruit [syn: {flesh}]
3: a mixture of cellulose fibers
4: an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper [syn:
{pulp magazine}]
5: the soft inner part of a tooth
v 1: remove the pulp from, as from a fruit
2: reduce to pulp; "pulp fruit"
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