pulppulp1 /pʌlp/ noun 
Mash the bananas to a pulp. timber grown for wood pulp (=used for making paper) a soft pulp of leaves and mud2fruit/vegetable [uncountable] the soft inside part of a fruit or vegetable: Halve the melon and scoop out the pulp.3books/films etc [uncountable] American English books, magazines, films etc that are badly written and that contain lots of sex, violence etc: an ad in a pulp magazine pulp fiction4beat somebody to a pulp informal to seriously injure someone by hitting them many times5tooth [uncountable] part of the inside of a tooth—pulpy adjective: Cook slowly until soft and pulpy.
WORD ORIGINpulp1
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin pulpa ‘flesh, pulp’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He won't drink the orange juice if there's a lot of pulp in it.
- paper pulp
- Stir vigorously to break the cranberries into a pulp.
- But now they face a battle to save another from being stripped of trees for a paper and pulp mill.
- But that evening, pulp mill workers crept beneath the building and bored through the floor and into the barrels stored there.
- Forty acres of corn burns up in July or is flooded out or beaten to a pulp by hail.
- Remove pits from persimmons, then scrape pulp free from skins with teaspoon.
- The pulp is sold back to the farmers for feeding to their cattle.
- The pulp wood and timber industry is an example of how a global economy can cut both ways here.
- These artists manipulate paper pulp to make sculptures, reliefs, embossed and two-dimensional work.
- This is why the paper-maker is able to make a fibrous pulp for your morning paper from wood.
WORD SETS
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adjectiveorgan, nounorganic, adjectiveorganic chemistry, nounorganism, nounorifice, nounossify, verbosteo-, prefixoutgrowth, nounova, ovary, nounoverwinter, verboviduct, nounoviparous, adjectiveovulate, verbovum, nounparasite, nounpathogen, nounpedigree, nounpelvic, adjectivepelvis, nounpenile, adjectivepenis, nounpepsin, nounperiod, nounperspiration, nounperspire, verbphotosynthesis, nounphylum, nounpigment, nounpigmentation, nounplankton, nounplasma, nounpollinate, verbpostnatal, adjectivepregnancy, nounpregnant, adjectivepremature, adjectiveprenatal, adjectiveproduct, nounproliferation, nounpropagate, verbprotein, nounprotoplasm, nounprotozoan, nounpuberty, nounpulmonary, adjectivepulp, nounpulsation, nounputrefy, verbputrid, adjectivered blood cell, nounregurgitate, verbrenal, adjectivereproduce, verbreproduction, nounreproductive, adjectiverespiration, nounrespiratory, adjectiverespire, verbretina, nounroot, nounrot, verbrot, nounruff, nounsac, nounsaliva, nounsalivary gland, 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verbwildlife, nounwindpipe, nounyolk, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Mash the bananas to a pulp. timber grown for wood pulp (=used for making paper) pulp fictionCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
Mash the bananas to a pulp. timber grown for wood pulp (=used for making paper) pulp fiction· He started reading pulp fiction in the year he lost his job and began producing mystery stories based on its formulas.
· But now they face a battle to save another from being stripped of trees for a paper and pulp mill.· But that evening, pulp mill workers crept beneath the building and bored through the floor and into the barrels stored there.· This land, and other former forest land, is being planted with eucalyptus to supply pulp mills.· Launched with so much promise, hope, and cash, the pulp mill venture turned into a debacle.· So were the proprietors of the largest pulp mill, who owned seven hundred feet of waterfront.
· A big offender is chlorine gas used for bleaching wood pulp.· It was an industry like wood pulp or shoes.
VERB· Attempting to beat some one to a pulp would be described in these terms.· But when Alvin came back I thought he was going to beat me to a pulp.· Forty acres of corn burns up in July or is flooded out or beaten to a pulp by hail.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1soft substance [singular, uncountable] a very soft substance that is almost liquid, made by crushing plants, wood, vegetables etc: - Attempting to beat some one to a pulp would be described in these terms.
- But when Alvin came back I thought he was going to beat me to a pulp.
Mash the bananas to a pulp. timber grown for wood pulp (=used for making paper) a soft pulp of leaves and mud2fruit/vegetable [uncountable] the soft inside part of a fruit or vegetable: Halve the melon and scoop out the pulp.3books/films etc [uncountable] American English books, magazines, films etc that are badly written and that contain lots of sex, violence etc: an ad in a pulp magazine pulp fiction4beat somebody to a pulp informal to seriously injure someone by hitting them many times5tooth [uncountable] part of the inside of a tooth—pulpy adjective: Cook slowly until soft and pulpy.