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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pulp \Pulp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pulped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Pulping}.]
   1. To reduce to pulp.

   2. To deprive of the pulp, or integument.

            The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as
            it comes from the tree. By a simple machine a man
            will pulp a bushel in a minute.       --B. Edwards.

Pulp \Pulp\, n. [L. pulpa flesh, pith, pulp of fruit: cf. F.
   pulpe.]
   A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft,
   undissolved animal or vegetable matter. Specifically:
   (a) (Anat.) A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the
       soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills
       the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.
   (b) (Bot.) The soft, succulent part of fruit; as, the pulp of
       a grape.
   (c) The exterior part of a coffee berry. --B. Edwards.
   (d) The material of which paper is made when ground up and
       suspended in water.

Source : WordNet®

pulp
     n 1: any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp" [syn: {mush}]
     2: a soft moist part of a fruit [syn: {flesh}]
     3: a mixture of cellulose fibers
     4: an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper [syn:
        {pulp magazine}]
     5: the soft inner part of a tooth
     v 1: remove the pulp from, as from a fruit
     2: reduce to pulp; "pulp fruit"; "pulp wood"
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