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The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.
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Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain files.
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Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvae, or larval skins, of certain Diptera.
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Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa.
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The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.
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The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.
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A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larvae and pupae of insects.
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Feeding on the pupae of insects.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.
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To become a pupa.
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The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.
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A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into final and sexually developed forms, from the union of which organisms are produced which pass through the same cycle of changes. See Transformation.
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the act of becoming a pupa.
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Producing pupas or nymphs.
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A stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago. In this stage, the insect is able to fly, but subsequently sheds a skin before becoming mature. Called also pseudimago.
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The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa.
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A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.
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One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
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The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail.
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