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1. (n.) pupa
an insect in the nonfeeding, usu. immobile, transformation stage between the larva and the adult.
Etymology: (1765–70; < NL, L pūpa girl, doll, puppet)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) pupa
an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
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1. (noun) Pupa
any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage
2. (noun) Pupa
a genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell
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1. Pupa
An inactive stage between the larval and adult stages in the life cycle of insects.
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Sense: the form that an insect takes when it is changing from a larva (eg a caterpillar) to its perfect form (eg a butterfly); a chrysalis.
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 Afrikaans: papie |
 Arabic: خادِرَه: حَشَرَة في طَوْر |
 Bulgarian: какавида |
 Brazilian: crisálida |
 Czech: kukla |
 German: die Puppe |
 Danish: puppe |
 Greek: νύμφη |
 Spanish: crisálida |
 Estonian: nukk |
 Farsi: شفیره |
 Finnish: kotelo |
 French: chrysalide |
 Hebrew: גוֹלֶם |
 Hindi: प्यूपाप्यूपा |
 Hungarian: lárva |
 Indonesian: kepompong |
 Icelandic: púpa |
 Italian: crisalide |
 Japanese: さなぎ |
 Korean: 번데기 |
 Lithuanian: lėliukė |
 Latvian: kūniņa |
 Malay: kepompong |
 Dutch: pop |
 Norwegian: puppe |
 Polish: poczwarka |
 Persian: شفیره |
 Pashto: نوى له هګى څخه وتلى چينجى |
 Portuguese: crisálida |
 Romanian: crisalidă |
 Russian: куколка |
 Slovak: kukla |
 Slovenian: ličinka |
 Serbian: lutka |
 Swedish: puppa |
 Thai: ดักแด้ |
 Turkish: pupa, krizalit |
 Taiwanese: 蛹 |
 Ukrainian: лялечка |
 Urdu: کيڑوں کي پيدائش کا آخري م |
 Vietnamese: con nhộng |
 Chinese: 蛹 |
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