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单词 pulpaceous
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pulpaceousadj.

Brit. /pʌlˈpeɪʃəs/, U.S. /pəlˈpeɪʃəs/
Forms: 1800s– pulpaceous, 1800s– pulpacious.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin pulpa , -aceous suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin pulpa pulp n. + -aceous suffix. Compare earlier pulpous adj. and pulpy adj., and later pulpose adj.With the form pulpacious compare -acious suffix.
rare.
Of a pulpy consistency.
ΚΠ
1837 W. Herbert Amaryllidaceæ 108 Whether the seed, like Bomarea, or the pericarp, like Tamus and Hæmanthus, has a pulpaceous coat, remains doubtful.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xl. 363 Symmetrically embanked round with the pulpacious material which he had excavated from the ice.
1894 C. A. Tyrrell Royal Road to Health (1918) ii. 39 The food leaves the stomach, where it has been churned into a pulpaceous mass.
1999 D. Berg tr. Plautus Miles Gloriosus ii. ii, in D. Berg & D. Parker tr. Plautus & Terence Five Comedies 13 I want him a pulsating mound of pulpaceous flesh.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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