Pupa is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUPA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an insect in the stage between larva and imago
• an insect in its inactive immature form between larva and adult, e.g. a chrysalis.
• insect at the stage of development between a larva and an adult
• Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
• A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
• an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an intermediate stage of a metamorphic insect

Words related to PUPA

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Words that contain PUPA

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How to use PUPA in a sentence

• During the pupa stage, it does not feed and after a few days it emerges as a butterfly.
• Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in its chrysalis.
• After remaining in the pupa stage about a week, they change into beetles again, which either begin feeding or go to winter quarters.
• It makes regular slave-raids upon the nests of the small brown ants, and carries off the young in their pupa condition.
• If the pupa of a butterfly or moth be lifted and held in the hand, a bending or wriggling motion of the abdomen can be observed.
• Many larvae bury themselves in the earth, and the pupa lies in an earthen chamber, the lining particles of soil fastened together by fine silken threads.
• Before midsummer it has usually spun its yellow cocoon under some shelter on the ground and changed into a pupa.
• The pupa, like the larva, is individualistic and employs its time in producing the final adult form.
• I understood that he took the pupa of a spider and by very careful work grafted upon it the pupa of a fly.
• The butterfly does, indeed, emerge from the coffin of the cocoon and the seemingly dead pupa.

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