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pulpy, a.|ˈpʌlpɪ|
[f. pulp n. + -y.]
1. Of the nature of, consisting of, or resembling pulp; soft, fleshy, succulent; also fig. flabby or (of literature) ephemeral, of poor quality, sensationalist: see pulp n. 4 c.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 860 Long'st thou for Butter? bite the poulpy part [of coco] And never better came to any Mart. 1694J. Ray in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 200 The hard-bill'd [birds] touch not pulpy fruits. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 330 Moist, pulpy, incoherent, argillaceous masses. 1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 417 The pulpy matter of the brain. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. xvii, Some score or two of years ago all these were little red-coloured pulpy infants. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxxix, His mind was perhaps a little pulpy from that too exclusive diet. 1905J. H. McCarthy Dryad 263 To make its way through ground as muddy and pulpy as a swamp. 1939R. Chandler Let. 19 Feb. (1966) 195 The Big Sleep is very unequally written. There are scenes that are all right, but there are other scenes still much too pulpy. 1978Nature 27 Apr. 786/1 Even the pulpiest science fiction includes this.
2. pulpy kidney (disease), a clostridial enterotoxæmia of sheep characterized by rapid postmortem degeneration of the kidneys.
1927N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. XXXIV. 217 (heading) ‘Pulpy kidney’ disease of lambs. Ibid. 227 Out of a mob of 290 lambs twelve died, presumably from ‘pulpy kidney’. 1938tr. F. Hutyra's Special Path. & Therapeutics Dis. Domestic Animals (ed. 4) III. 14 In Australia..an epizootic type of severe renal degeneration known as ‘pulpy kidney disease’ occurs..(the symptoms are paralysis and convulsions, and death occurs in 3 to 7 hours). 1953Cape Argus 21 Mar. 7/3 Pulpy kidney disease is taking a heavy toll among sheep in the Lady Grey district. 1970‘J. Herriot’ If only they could Talk xxv. 149 The diseases which beset the lambs themselves—swayback, pulpy kidney, dysentery. |