Pith vs Cortex - What's the difference?
pith | cortex |
The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
The spongy interior substance of a feather.
The spinal cord; the marrow.
(figuratively) The essential or vital part.
* Shakespeare
To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree).
To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord.
(countable, anatomy) The outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.
(uncountable, botany) The tissue of a stem or root that lies inward from the epidermis, but exterior to the vascular tissue.
As nouns the difference between pith and cortex
is that pith is the soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees while cortex is the outer layer of an internal organ or body structure, such as the kidney or the brain.As a verb pith
is to extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree).pith
English
Noun
(-)- The pith of my idea is truth.
- enterprises of great pith and moment