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n. The nonfeeding stage between the larva and adult in the metamorphosis of holometabolous insects, during which the larva typically undergoes complete transformation within a protective cocoon or hardened case.

n. Used as a specific epithet

n. an insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult.

n. Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.

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

n. The third and usually quiescent stage of those insects which undergo complete metamorphosis, intervening between the larval and the imaginal stage.

n. A stage in the development of some other arthropods, as cirripeds. See locomotive pupa, below.

n. [capitalized] In conchology, the typical genus of Pupidæ; the chrysalis - shells.

n. See the adjectives.

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

"This time it forms a stiff, white cover and is called a pupa (PYOO-puh)."

obtected pupa   

coarctate pupa    incased pupa    mature    locomotive pupa    pupa coarctata    pupa obtecta    caterpillar   

pupae   

Stupa    lupa    stupa   

chrysalis    pupae    larva    stridulation    cicada    caterpillar    cocoon    termite    prothorax    feeler