mass noun
1- a soft, wet, shapeless mass of material浆, 糊状物：
boiling with soda will reduce your peas to pulp.
加苏打煮开, 即可将豌豆煮成糊状。
1.1
- the soft fleshy part of a fruit果肉, 瓤。
1.2
- a soft wet mass of fibres derived from rags or wood, used in papermaking纸浆。
1.3
- vascular tissue filling the interior cavity and root canals of a tooth牙髓。
1.4
- Mining pulverized ore mixed with water【矿】矿浆。
1.5
- usu. as modifier figurative popular or sensational writing that is generally regarded as being of poor quality〈喻〉通俗（或耸人听闻）的劣质作品：
the story is a mix of pulp fiction and Greek tragedy.
该故事由拙劣的虚构与希腊悲剧拼凑而成。
ORIGIN: formerly printed on rough paper.
with obj.
1- crush into a soft, shapeless mass把…碾成浆。
1.1
- withdraw (a publication) from the market and recycle the paper回收（出版物）再利用其纸张。
短语
beat（或smash）someone to a pulp
- beat someone severely狠打, 痛打。
派生词
pulper
nounpulpiness
nounpulpy
adjective词源
late Middle English (denoting the soft fleshy part of fruit)： from Latin pulpa. The verb dates from the mid 17th cent.