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noun
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Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
2.
Zoology. the soft inner part of a feather, a hair, etc.
3.
the important or essential part; essence; core; heart: the pith of the matter.
4.
significant weight; substance; solidity: an argument without pith.
5.
EXPANDArchaic. spinal cord or bone marrow.
verb (used with object)
7.
to remove the pith from (plants).
8.
to destroy the spinal cord or brain of.
9.
to slaughter, as cattle, by severing the spinal cord.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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pith
O.E. piþa "pith of plants," also "essential part," from W.Gmc. *pithan- (cf. M.Du. pitte, E.Fris. pit), a Low Ger. root of uncertain origin. Figurative sense was in O.E. The verb meaning "to kill by piercing the spinal cord" is from 1805. Pith helmet (1889, earlier pith hat, 1884) so called because
EXPANDit is made from the dried pith of the Bengal spongewood.
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Medical Dictionary
pith (pĭth)
n.
The soft inner substance of a hair.
Spinal cord or bone marrow. No longer in technical use.
To sever or destroy the spinal cord of a vertebrate animal, usually by means of a needle inserted into the vertebral canal.
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pith  (pĭth) Pronunciation Key
Noun The soft, spongy tissue in the center of the stems of most flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns. Pith is composed of parenchyma cells. In plants that undergo secondary growth, such as angiosperms, the pith is surrounded by the vascular tissues and is gradually compressed by the inward growth of the vascular tissue known as xylem. In plants with woody stems, the pith dries out and often disintegrates as the plant grows older, leaving the stem hollow. See illustration at xylem. Verb
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