pulp

pulpe

Partie tendre du fruit que l’on peut manger.

En anglais simple : The soft part inside a fruit that you can eat.

• This juice contains orange pulp.
• Scoop the pulp out with a spoon.
• Do you prefer juice with or without pulp?

Synonymes : flesh

Expressions courantes : orange pulp, fruit pulp, juice with pulp

bouillie, pâte

Matière molle et épaisse obtenue en écrasant quelque chose ou en le détrempant.

En anglais simple : A soft, wet, thick mixture made when something is crushed or becomes very soggy.

• The wet paper became pulp.
• Mash the cooked beans into a soft pulp.
• After hours in the rain, the cardboard was a soggy pulp.

Synonymes : mush, mash

Expressions courantes : a soggy pulp, reduce to pulp, beat to pulp

pâte à papier

Bois réduit en petits morceaux et traité avec de l’eau et des produits chimiques pour fabriquer du papier.

En anglais simple : Wood broken into tiny pieces and treated with water and chemicals to make paper.

• The factory makes wood pulp.
• Paper is produced from pulp in this mill.
• They use recycled pulp to make packaging.

Synonymes : wood pulp

Expressions courantes : wood pulp, pulp mill, paper pulp

littérature populaire, roman de gare

Livres ou magazines bon marché aux histoires passionnantes, parfois choquantes, autrefois imprimés sur du papier grossier.

En anglais simple : Cheap books or magazines with exciting, sometimes shocking stories, traditionally printed on rough paper.

• He enjoys reading old pulp.
• She collected detective pulps from the 1930s.
• The writer began her career in pulp magazines.

Synonymes : pulp fiction

Expressions courantes : pulp fiction, pulp magazine, pulp novel