remove the fleshy part of a fruit; crush, grind, pulverize; form into a soft moist mass of material
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Pulping Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. Aboutof Pulp
Noun
1. any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp"
(synonym) mush
(hypernym) mass
2. a soft moist part of a fruit
(synonym) flesh
(hypernym) plant tissue
(substance-meronym) parenchyma
3. a mixture of cellulose fibers
(hypernym) cellulose
(hyponym) bagasse
4. an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper
(synonym) pulp magazine
(hypernym) magazine, mag
5. the soft inner part of a tooth
(hypernym) vascular structure
(part-holonym) tooth
Verb
1. remove the pulp from, as from a fruit
(hypernym) take out
(derivation) flesh
2. reduce to pulp; "pulp fruit"; "pulp wood"
(hypernym) grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
(derivation) mush
Pulping Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Pulp is a lignocellulosic fibrous material prepared by chemically or mechanically separating cellulose fibres from wood, fibre crops or waste paper. Wood pulp is the most common raw material in papermaking.
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