Meaning & use

pulp

noun·Everyday

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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