Definition of pupa

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Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

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Pseudopupa :: Pseudopupa (n.) A stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects.
Nymphiparous :: Nymphiparous (a.) Producing pupas or nymphs.
Chrysalis :: Chrysalis (n.) The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a)..
Silkworm :: Silkworm (n.) The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa..
Pupas :: Pupas (pl. ) of Pup.
Semi Pupa :: Semi pupa (n.) The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa.
Cocoon :: Cocoon (n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.
Pseudopupas :: Pseudopupas (pl. ) of Pseudopup.
Pupigerous :: Pupigerous (a.) Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvae which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.
Pupe :: Pupe (n.) A pupa.
Wiggler :: Wiggler (n.) The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail..
Silk :: Silk (n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori..
Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..
Pupivora :: Pupivora (n. pl.) A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects..
Pupivorous :: Pupivorous (a.) Feeding on the pupae of insects.
Pupa :: Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Pseudopupae :: Pseudopupae (pl. ) of Pseudopup.
Pupipara :: Pupipara (n. pl.) A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera..
Metamorphosis :: Metamorphosis (n.) A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into
Nymph :: Nymph (n.) The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
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