pith

Among her many dancers, I spy a nurse, an astronaut, a UPS delivery guy — even a dude in a pith helmet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026

Mountain yam, bamboo pith and shoots, lotus seeds and gorgon fruit, which Yin says “looks like chickpeas, and tastes like tapioca,” all appear on his menu, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025

This layer holds moisture, much like the pith in the center of a tree trunk.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023

The last is painted on the semi-circular pith of a banana tree and is owned by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2023

Grandfather’s rich throaty voice said, “Maybe you’re getting too much water and turning to pith and stalk. Wait until you head out, and then we’ll see.”

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

For example, some chimpanzees chew bitter piths of the medicinal shrub Vernonia amygdalina to treat worm infections—and even detour from their normal foraging routes to seek out the plants.

From Science Magazine ● May 1, 2024

Grapefruit is used here, but if you happen on pomelos, grab a few: They’re much easier to peel and loosen from their piths.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

More tangerine wedges cook alongside the bird in the same pan, their piths softening in the sauce that lacquers the bird.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2022

They’ve also become a model for larger, multinational food companies, which are starting to realize that upcycling peels and piths can be good business.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2017

The walnut and butternut have chambered piths which distinguish them from all other trees and from each other.

From Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison

The entire book is narrated in an urgent, poking present tense, and the pithed characters, of different ages, are presented without complex histories—indeed, without much history at all.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016

Dickey pithed three-hit ball for seven innings as Toronto romped past Boston.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2014

My nephews are sprawled like pithed frogs before the HDTV, teaching themselves physics by lobbing antimatter bombs onto an offending civilization from high orbit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Watched to water and pithed by Postal Packet, Dec. 14th.

From Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling

Watched to water and pithed by postal packet, Dec. 14th.

From With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) by Frank X. Leyendecker