01 n. Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
pl.
Pupæ, Pupas ((#))
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1.
Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.(Zool.)
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2.
A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.(Zool.)
Phrases & compounds
Coarctate 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.