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US
/ˈpɪθ/
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[ UK /pˈɪθ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪθ/ ]
NOUN
- soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
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the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
the gist of the prosecutor's argument
the nub of the story
the heart and soul of the Republican Party
VERB
- remove the pith from (a plant)
How To Use pith In A Sentence
- These compounds are absorbed into the epithelial cells surrounding the central lumen containing the colloid.
- Excepting his quaint epithets which he affects to render literally from the Greek, a language above all others blest in the happy marriage of sweet words, and which in our language are mere printer's compound epithets -- such as quaffed divine Literary Remains, Volume 1
- Verreaux's sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) are the most prominent inhabitants of Kirindy.
- There are some potential disadvantages of using biopsy specimens as opposed to epithelial cell preparations for metabolic studies.
- Furthermore, outgroup comparison (with macaques, for example) indicates that some of these characters are primitive for the cercopithecid clade that includes these species (Papionina). Archive 2006-06-01
- I found my page and there was a photo of myself and underneath it my talents were pithily described.
- In addition to the tubules, the epithelial cells may also form nests, cords, single cells, micropapillae, and keratinous cysts.
- There was Mr Fox and his trucks carting coal from the pitheads and they were held not to be in the coalmining industry.
- Previous reports suggest that cystic fibrosis airway epithelia may respond to injury by increasing proliferation.
- He wound up coining a phrase that is pithier in Russian, sums up so much of the national character and is a favorite saying here to this day. Viktor Chernomyrdin, Yeltsin's stolid prime minister, dies