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# pulpy

«pulpy» in Mova's school dictionary: **Soft, wet and squashy, like pulp (the soft inside of fruit)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (pulpy, pulpier, pulpiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Soft, wet and squashy, like pulp (the soft inside of fruit). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulpy/#m1)

2) (of stories) Cheap, exciting and not very well written, like old «pulp» magazines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulpy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking, pulpy fruit is soft and mushy; orange juice «with bits» is pulpy. In science, wood is made into pulp to make paper.

### examples

- The peaches were soft and pulpy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulpy/#x1)
- I like pulpy orange juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulpy/#x2)
- The paper turned pulpy in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulpy/#x3)
- Mash the bananas until pulpy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulpy/#x4)
- The tomatoes were overripe and pulpy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulpy/#x5)
- He reads pulpy adventure stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulpy/#x6)

### note

From «pulp» + «-y». Comparative: pulpier.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pulpy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pulpy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.