pith

Joe Biden is not known for pith in his public remarks; he is known for spiraling, ungrammatical sentence construction, digression, and avuncular nonsense.

Warwick calls decapitation a “brutally cruel” method, and he thinks it’s unlikely that civilian hunters routinely pith the snakes’ brains.

Not only that, but the amount of dirt that clung to the stalk indicated the wealth of a future partner and "if the pith tastes sweet it shows that the husband or wife of the lucky individual is to be sweet also".

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

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