pith
pronunciation
How to pronounce pith in British English:
UK [pɪθ]
How to pronounce pith in American English:
US [pɪθ]
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- Noun:
- soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Word Origin
- pith (n.)
- Old English piþa "pith of plants," also "essential part," from West Germanic *pithan- (cognates: Middle Dutch pitte, Dutch pit, East Frisian pit), a Low German root of uncertain origin. Figurative sense was in Old English. Pith helmet (1889, earlier pith hat, 1884) so called because it is made from the dried pith of the Bengal spongewood.
- pith (v.)
- "to kill by piercing the spinal cord," 1805, from pith (n.). Related: Pithed; pithing.
Example
- 1. Even oranges don 't eat the whole peel , but keep the pith , that white stringy stuff ; it 's packed with flavonoids .
- 2. The pith the essence of faith lies in this --- a casting oneself on the promise .
- 3. As the pith of chinese traditional culture heritage , confucius 's learning view is what we should still preserve and develop today .
- 4. Fishtail palm of to malay peninsula sap yields a brown sugar jaggery and trunk pith yields sago .
- 5. He 's gonna need a smaller pith helmet .