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IPA transcription: ['pɪθ]
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Noun
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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 heart and soul of the Republican Party”
“the nub of the story”
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soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
Verb
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remove the pith from (a plant)
Usage examples
- Many of these have common names that include the "woollybush" epithet.
- The contents of the pithoi are not known.
- "Oligopithecus savagei" was found in Africa and discovered in Egypt.
- Karandikar was the only third Marathi writer to have won Jnanpith Award.
- They are also found in the keratinocytes of the outermost layer in parakeratinised epithelium.
- It is found in some progenitor basal cells within complex epithelia.
- The epithet "antisoviet" was synonymous with "counter-revolutionary".
- However, this epithet does not appear in medieval sources.
- The Latin specific epithet "cinerea" means "ash coloured".
- Scott's epithet was a compliment.