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

The word code comes from the Latin caudex, the wooden pith of a tree on which scribes carved their writing.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Rice, moss, palm tree piths, and starch producing roots are used by different nationalities in the preparation of bread.

From Science in the Kitchen. by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

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

I've been horribly scared, Lawson, over this," and he placed his hand over his heart, "I was lifting a case of biscuits when I dropped like a pithed bullock.

From The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 by Louis Becke

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

From Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling