wood pulp

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noun
  1. wood reduced to pulp through mechanical and chemical treatment for use in the manufacture of certain kinds of paper.

Origin of wood pulp

1
First recorded in 1865–70

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How to use wood pulp in a sentence

  • A Frenchman has discovered a process, la soyeuse, of making spruce wood pulp into a substitute for cotton.

    Textiles | William H. Dooley
  • Barks, as for tanning or dyeing, seeds and gums, and the wood pulp for paper are on exhibition.

  • It is the wood-pulp industry which is at present destroying the Canadian forests.

    The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott Elliot
  • The latter methods are at present almost exclusively used for the preparation of chemical wood pulp.

    The Manufacture of Paper | Robert Walter Sindall
  • This material has qualities which cannot readily be obtained from other fibres, such as rag and wood pulp.

    The Manufacture of Paper | Robert Walter Sindall

British Dictionary definitions for wood pulp

wood pulp

noun
  1. wood that has been ground to a fine pulp for use in making newsprint and other cheap forms of paper, and in the production of hardboard

  2. finely pulped wood that has been digested by a chemical, such as caustic soda, and sometimes bleached: used in making paper

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