Definition of Pulpy
1. Adjective. Like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness.
Definition of Pulpy
1. n. Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the pulpy covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry.
Definition of Pulpy
1. Adjective. Having the characteristics of pulp ¹
2. Adjective. Having the characteristics of pulp fiction; thus, having a garish focus on sex and violence ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pulpy
1. resembling pulp [adj PULPIER, PULPIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulpy
Literary usage of Pulpy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie (1812)
"Testicle enlarged and pulpy. The testicle is sometimes much enlarged, and converted
into an uniform, pulpy matter, in which its natural structure is ..."
2. A Treatise on Surgery by Timothy Holmes (1875)
"The synovial membrane becomes more or less thickened in all cases of pulpy de-
chronic synovitis, but this thickening disappears in the course of time, ..."
3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1912)
"The He got up painfully, wondering to what suspense was agony. extent the wet
grass had left its green " He came down in the pulpy ground squarely, ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1856)
"During the manufacture of the paper, when in a pulpy state, the characters or
letters which indicate the denomination of the bill, whether " five," " ten," ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1836)
"... occasionally mistaken for Pulmonary Apoplexy, and on the origin of the" Soft
pulpy Tubercle" of Bailie. ..."
6. Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine by John Hughes Bennett (1867)
"Some tumors of this kind are so soft, as to be pulpy in their ... Fibre cells
and fibres from the pulpy interior of a polypus removed by Mr. Syme. Ki','. ..."
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