PUPA
\pjˈuːpə], \pjˈuːpə], \p_j_ˈuː_p_ə]\
Definitions of PUPA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
By Princeton University
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an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
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A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
By Oddity Software
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A stage in the development of an insect between the larva and the imago; when quiescent, as in the moth, the pupa is sometimes called chrysalis; when active, as in the mosquito, it is called nymph.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The third or last state but one of insect existence-the first being the egg, the second the caterpillar, the third the pupa, and the fourth or last the perfect insect or imago; a genus of small fossil land snails.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
