pulp

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Etymology

From Latin pulpa.

Noun

pulp (usually uncountable; plural pulps)

1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
3. The soft center of a fruit
4. The soft center of a tooth
5. A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper.
6. Mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).

Derived terms

terms derived from pulp (noun)

beat to a pulp pulp chamber pulpaceous pulpal pulpament pulpectomy pulpify

pulpily pulpless pulp mill pulpous pulpotomy pulpwood pulpy

Translations

soft, moist mass

• Finnish: massa (fi)
• French: pulpe (fr) f
• Greek: πολτός (el) m (poltós)
• Hungarian: pép (hu), massza (hu)

• Italian: polpa (it) f
• Romanian: pulpă (ro)
• Russian: мякоть (ru) (mjákotʹ) f , пульпа (ru) (púlʹpa) f 

center of a fruit

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 果肉 (cmn) (guǒròu)

• Czech: dřeň (cs) f
• Finnish: hedelmäliha (fi)
• French: pulpe (fr) f
• German: Fruchtfleisch (de) n, Fleisch (de) n
• Hungarian: gyümölcshús (hu)

• Italian: polpa (it) f
• Japanese: 果肉 (ja) (かにく, kaniku)
• Polish: miąższ (pl) m
• Portuguese: polpa (pt) f
• Russian: мякоть (ru) (mjákotʹ) 
• Slovak: dreň (sk) f
• Volapük: pulp (vo), flukapulp (vo)

center of a tooth

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 齒髓 (cmn), 齿髓 (cmn) (chǐsuǐ), 牙髓 (cmn) (yásuǐ)

• Czech: dřeň (cs) f
• Finnish: hammasydin, pulpa
• French: pulpe (fr) f

• Greek: πολφός (el) (polfós) m 
• Italian: polpa (it) f
• Japanese: 歯髄 (ja) (しずい, shizui)
• Polish: miazga (pl) f
• Russian: пульпа (ru) (púlʹpa) f 

mass of which paper is produced

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紙漿 (cmn), 纸浆 (cmn) (zhǐjiāng)

• Finnish: paperimassa
• French: pulpe (fr) f

• German: Pulpa (de) f
• Japanese: パルプ (ja) (parupu)
• Russian: пульпа (ru) (púlʹpa) f 

mass of chemically processed wood fibres

• Finnish: sellu (fi), selluloosa (fi)
• French: pulpe (fr) f

• Italian: cellulosa (it) f
• Russian: пульпа (ru) (púlʹpa) f 

lurid style of writing or publishing

• Finnish: sensaatiojournalismi
• French: (presse) à sensation (fr) f

• Hungarian: ponyva (hu), ponyvaregény (hu)

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Translations to be checked

• Portuguese: polpa f
• Telugu: గుజ్జు (gujju), పిప్పి (pippi) (1, 3)

Verb

pulp (third-person singular simple present pulps, present participle pulping, simple past and past participle pulped)

1. To make, or be made into pulp
2. To beat to a pulp.

Derived terms

• pulper

Translations

to make into pulp

• Finnish: jauhaa massaksi

to be made into pulp

• Finnish: jauhautua massaksi