Crossword clues for pupa
pupa
- Future moth
- Cocoon resident
- Butterfly, formerly
- Butterfly stage
- One-time larva
- Insect in a cocoon
- Certain insect stage
- Stage between larva and adult
- Larva's descendant
- Insect's quiescent stage
- Future butterfly
- Transformative stage
- Transformative period for an insect
- Thing in a cocoon
- Stage that means "doll" in Latin
- Stage in an insect's life cycle
- Postlarval stage
- Post-larval stage
- Part of a moth's life cycle
- Onetime larva
- Maturing mosquito
- Life stage originally represented by the circled letters, prior to metamorphosis
- Life in a cocoon
- Larval stage
- Larva's elder
- Insect stage that involves a cocoon
- Insect reproductive stage
- Insect in the stage after larva
- Insect development stage
- Early stage in an insect's metamorphosis
- Cocoon, for example
- Cocoon-bound bug
- Cocoon occupier
- Butterfly-to-be, while in a cocoon
- After larva
- Cocoon-stage insect
- Cocoon's contents
- Post-larval insect
- Insect stage after larva
- Larva successor
- Stage that includes a cocoon
- Cocoon contents
- Part of a life transformation
- Caterpillar product
- Cocooned stage
- An insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
- Insect in the post-larval stage
- Stage between larva and imago
- Butterfly, once
- Stage of development
- Stage of metamorphosis
- Chrysalis, e.g
- Between larva and imago
- Stage before imago
- Entomological specimen at university in Pennsylvania
- Form of insect life in Papua New Guinea finally disappearing
- Young setter, perhaps a future monarch?
- Former larva
- Metamorphic stage
- Cocoon occupant
- Metamorphosis stage
- Cocoon dweller
- Cocoon inhabitant
- Insect phase
- Insect in its cocoon
- Stage in a bug's life
- Stage after larva
- Post-larva stage
- Insect life stage between larva and adult
- Insect form
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pupa \Pu"pa\, n.; pl. L. Pup[ae], E. Pupas. [L. pupa girl. doll, puppet, fem. of pupus. Cf. Puppet.]
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(Zo["o]l.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
Note: Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and takes food, and differs little from the imago except in the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the wings in those that have wings when adult. The term pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in analogous stages of development.
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(Zo["o]l.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Coarctate pupa, or Obtected 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"post-larval stage of an insect," 1773, special use by Linnæus (1758) of Latin pupa "girl, doll, puppet" (see pupil (n.1)) on notion of "undeveloped creature." Related: Pupal; pupiform.
Wiktionary
n. an insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult.
WordNet
n. an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
[also: pupae (pl)]
Wikipedia
thumb|upright=1.6|Pupa of the rose chafer beetle, Cetonia aurata A pupa ( Latin pupa for doll, pl: pupae or pupas) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation. The pupal stage is found only in holometabolous insects, those that undergo a complete metamorphosis, going through four life stages: embryo, larva, pupa and imago. (For a list of such insects see Holometabolism).
The pupae of different groups of insects have different names such as chrysalis for the pupae of butterflies and tumbler for those of the mosquito family. Pupae may further be enclosed in other structures such as cocoons, nests or shells.
Pupa is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Acteonidae.
The genus is named Pupa because the shell of these snails resemble an insect pupa in overall shape. The animal has a large headshield with a deep median slit, separating it into two posteriorly projecting lobes.
Pupa may refer to:
- Pupa, the life stage of some insects
- Pupa (gastropod), a genus of small sea snails
- Pupa (manga), a horror manga series
- Puppa (Hasidic dynasty), in Judaism
- Alba Encarnación (1956–2012), nicknamed "Pupa", a Puerto Rican community activist
- Metal Gear PUPA, an AI weapon and minor antagonist in the stealth video game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Usage examples of "pupa".
Well, you know all about it, those first weeks with the Siggies touring around and singing in front of churches and mosques and temples, and the Unitarian minister coming out to hold joint services in the open air, and the kids wearing maypole buttons and Great Pupa buttons and all the rest.
Red and Yellow Siggies were on their way out of our system, leaving us with five smashed cities, innumerable wrecked houses of religion, and more maypole effigies of the Great Pupa than could be counted before they were melted down.
Through this temporary protection the active pupa, which closely resembles the mature insect, subsequently bites a way by means of its strong mandibles, and rising to the surface of the water casts the pupal integument and becomes sexually adult.
Instead of changing gradually and remaining active all the time up to the final metamorphosis, our corydalus goes into the pupa state, and in that motionless condition transforms to the perfect insect.
The heat was still humming on the train, and a hawkmoth pupa he had kept in a box for seven years hatched in the unaccustomed warmth.
They were creations in progress, pupae that could transform instantly into new forms.
You collected empty Sarcophaga bullata pupa rial cases and intact pup aria from both bodies.
Ryn roamed the settlement, crushing intact pupae, but for every white-eye they found, ten more flew up to the dome and started chowing down.
Then we can gather the coarctate pupae which preserve themselves in hardened cuticula.
While as an earwitness he was able to tell how many wheat beetles, including pupas and doodle bugs, how many ichneumon flies and flour beetles resided in it, he was able with his ear to the sack to indicate the exact number of mealworms -- Tenebrio molitor-- present in a hundredweight of wheat flour.
One generation of adults pollinates the female flowers of the next, and the pistils of the flowers serve as pupae carrying already-gravid female flies.
But as ants, which are not slave-makers, will, as I have seen, carry off pupae of other species, if scattered near their nests, it is possible that pupae originally stored as food might become developed.
If their presence proved useful to the species which had seized them -- if it were more advantageous to this species to capture workers than to procreate them -- the habit of collecting pupae originally for food might by natural selection be strengthened and rendered permanent for the very different purpose of raising slaves.
There were the human pupae behind her, dragging her every gesture into slow motion, and there were the psycho psychics behind Mr.
Zetes had been talking to Rob, while the human pupae were busy keeping Rob tightly controlled for the chaining, while Jackal Mac was unlocking the other chains, Gabriel had been inching forward.