Pupa PU'PA, n. [L. supra.] In natural history, an insect in that state in which it resembles an infant in swaddling clothes. As some insects in this state have a bright exterior,as if gilded, it has been called chrysalis or aurelia, from the Gr. and L. aurum, gold; but as this gilded appearance belongs to few insects, the term pupa is now more generally used.

pupa n 1: an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult

pupa noun (plural pupae or pupas) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin pupa doll Date: 1815 an intermediate usually quiescent stage of a metamorphic insect (as a bee, moth, or beetle) that occurs between the larva and the imago, is usually enclosed in a cocoon or protective covering, and undergoes internal changes by which larval structures are replaced by those typical of the imago • pupal adjective

pupa
n. (pl. pupae) an insect in the stage of development between larva and imago.
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pupal adj.
Etymology: mod.L f. L pupa girl, doll

pupa (pupae) A pupa is an insect that is in the stage of development between a larva and a fully grown adult. It has a protective covering and does not move. (TECHNICAL) The pupae remain dormant in the soil until they emerge as adult moths in the winter. N-COUNT

pupa ˈpjupə n. (pl. pupae) an insect in the stage of development between larva and imago. øøpupal adj. [mod.L f. L pupa girl, doll]

Pupa \Pu"pa\, n.; pl. L. Pup?, E. Pupas. [L. pupa girl. doll, puppet, fem. of pupus. Cf. Puppet.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage. Note: Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and takes food, and differs little from the imago except in the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the wings in those that have wings when adult. The term pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in analogous stages of development. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell. Coarctate, or Obtected, pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.

pupa n. Chrysalis, aurelia.

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