pith 的 2 个定义
- Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- Zoology. the soft inner part of a feather, a hair, etc.
- the important or essential part; essence; core; heart: the pith of the matter.
- (6)
- to remove the pith from.
- to destroy the spinal cord or brain of.
- to slaughter, as cattle, by severing the spinal cord.
pith 近义词
core
更多pith例句
- She also muddles or bruises herbs to express their aromatic oils, and removes the rind and pith from citrus to ward off unwanted bitterness.
- In a good Seville orange, oily and aromatic skin easily gives way to thick, bitter pith, followed by its heavily seeded segments.
- It is more like a sweet wine with hints of dried apricots, grapefruit pith, cypress, and lemons.
- Haass, now the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, blends history, memoir, and policy pith to great effect.
- The unprepared sago is imported from the neighbouring island of Borromeo, and consists of the pith of a short, thick kind of palm.
- The pith of the whole sentence can be stated in a few words, if the sentence has unity.
- What a tendency there is to round off a narrative into falsehood; or else by parenthesis to destroy its pith and continuity.
- These wicks of pith he sold about the town in small penny bundles.
- Stem: Cylindrical; creamy white; hollow, or with a loose cottony pith.