pulp

1. 1.

   remove the pulp from, as from a fruit

   Broadertake out
2. 2.

   reduce to pulp

   “pulp fruit”

   “pulp wood”

   Broadergrind

Other forms of pulp

plural

pulps·

past tense

pulped·

present participle

pulping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pulp

What does pulp mean?

pulp means "any soft or soggy mass". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pulp?

pulp has 1 syllable: pulp. In IPA it is /ˈpʌlp/.

What is another word for pulp?

Close synonyms include mush, flesh, pulp magazine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pulp a common word?

pulp is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.