Definition of: pulp

(pulp) noun
1. A moist, soft, slightly cohering mass of matter, usually organic, as chyme, or the soft, succulent part of fruit.
2. A mixture of wood fibers or rags, reduced to a pulpy consistency, and forming the basis from which paper is made.
3. plural Magazines printed on rough, unglazed, wood–pulp paper, and usually having contents of a cheap, sensational nature: distinguished from slicks.
4. Powdered ore mixed with water; slime.
5. A pulplike organ or part.
6. Dent. The soft tissue of vessels and nerves that fills the central cavity of a tooth.
—v.t.
1. To reduce to pulp.
2. To remove the pulp or envelope from.
—v.i.
3. To be or become of a pulpy consistency. [<MF pulpe <L pulpa flesh, pulp of fruit, pith]
—pulp′less adjective