Meaning & use
pulp
A soft, moist, shapeless mass, especially the fleshy part of a fruit or the material used to make paper.
See it in a sentence
She blended the mangoes into a smooth pulp before pouring it over the ice cream.
The factory turns wood chips into pulp, which is then pressed and dried into paper.
A note on using this word
As an adjective, pulp describes cheap, sensational fiction or magazines, as in 'pulp fiction,' a sense unrelated to the physical substance.
Words with a similar meaning
mushpaste
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To crush or beat something into a soft, shapeless mass.
Workers pulp old newspapers to recycle them into new sheets of paper.
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