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In natural English speech, "pith" appears in contexts such as: "same bamboo trees looked at that same house at that same veranda and I probably would have seen a portly famous American in a pith helmet with a big mustache sitting there on the porch writing his book African game Trails I could have perhaps gone up to". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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IPA/pɪθ/

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same bamboo trees looked at that same house at that same veranda and I

probably would have seen a portly famous American in a pith helmet with a big

mustache sitting there on the porch writing his book African game Trails I could have perhaps gone up to

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noun

The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees.

“This ſvveete ſmelling Reede is of a darke dun colour, full of ioints and knees eaſie to be broken into ſmall ſplinters, hollovv and full of a certaine vvhite pith, cobvveb vviſe, ſomevvhat gummie in eating, and hanging in the teeth, and of a ſharpe bitter taſte.”

Synonyms:marrow medulla

noun

The albedo (“whitish inner portion of the rind”) of a citrus fruit.

verb

To render insensate or kill (an animal, especially cattle or a laboratory animal) by cutting, piercing, or otherwise destroying the spinal cord.

verb

To extract the pith from (something or (figurative) someone).

“And yet, instead of exclaiming "Send this inconceivable Satanist to the stake," the respectable newspapers pith me by announcing "another book by this brilliant and thoughtful writer."”

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