<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Botany: The soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.</li><li>The white, spongy part of a citrus fruit between the rind and the thin, transparent skin of individual segments.</li><li>Zoology: The soft inner part of a feather, a hair, etc.</li><li>The important or essential part; essence; core; heart: the pith of the matter.</li><li>Significant weight; substance; solidity: an argument without pith.</li><li>Archaic: Spinal cord or bone marrow.</li><li>Archaic: Strength, force, or vigor; mettle: men of pith.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) To remove the pith from (plants).</li><li>To destroy the spinal cord or brain of.</li><li>To slaughter, as cattle, by severing the spinal cord.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>