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Meanings of pupa in English
Usage of pupa in English
1
Caught in this matrix, grubs and pupa perish, incapable of freeing themselves.
2
We managed to extricate it and put the pupa in a jar.
3
The time has arrived for the pupa to work at the exit gallery.
4
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in its chrysalis.
5
Would it not be the same with the pupa of the flesh fly?
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Facebook Twitter Pinterest A genetically modified mosquito emerges from its pupa.
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The child, a girl, holds out the inert brown shell of the pupa.
8
They are in the state of torpor that precedes the appearance of the pupa.
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The pupa, or chrysalis, we have found in the cells the last of July.
10
His personality split; he left the old self behind like a shed pupa case.
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When the insect is about to assume the pupa state, it moults its skin.
12
The other pupa cases were healthful and lively, but the moths would not emerge.
13
The Carolina moths come from their pupa cases as featherweights step into the sparring.
14
Upon reaching full size, the larva metamorphosed into a pupa.
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Egg, larva, pupa, adult,-thoseare the stages of insects that have a complete metamorphosis.
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The pupa is three-fourths of an inch long, and of a mahogany brown color.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common