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PUPA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: pupae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pupa" is a kind of...):

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pupa"):

chrysalis (pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon)

Derivation:

pupal (of the insects in the chrysalis (cocoon) or post larval stage)

pupate (develop into a pupa)

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