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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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