pith
pith is a 4-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.
- noun. The spongy interior substance of a feather.
- noun. The spinal cord; the marrow.
- noun. Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.
- transitive verb. To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.
- noun. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"
- noun. soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
- verb. remove the pith from (a plant)
Synonyms
center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, substance, sum
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pith:
Common word forms
piths, pithed, pithes, pithful, pithing, pithless
Words from these letters
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