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Webster 1913 Edition

Pupa

Pu′pa

,
Noun.
;
pl. L.
Pupæ
(#)
, E.
Pupas
(#)
.
[L.
pupa
girl. doll, puppet, fem. of
pupus
. Cf.
Puppet
.]
1.
(Zool.)
Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
☞ Among insects belonging to the higher orders, as the Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, the pupa is inactive and takes no food; in the lower orders it is active and takes food, and differs little from the imago except in the rudimentary state of the sexual organs, and of the wings in those that have wings when adult. The term pupa is sometimes applied to other invertebrates in analogous stages of development.
2.
(Zool.)
A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Coarctate pupa
, or
Obtected pupa
,
a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera.
–
Masked pupa
,
a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pupa

PU'PA

,
Noun.
[L. supra.] In natural history, an insect in that state in which it resembles an infant in swaddling clothes. As some insects in this state have a bright exterior,as if gilded, it has been called chrysalis or aurelia, from the Gr. and L. aurum, gold; but as this gilded appearance belongs to few insects, the term pupa is now more generally used.

Definition 2024

Pupa

Pupa

See also: pupa, púpa, and pupă

Translingual

Proper noun

Pupa f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Acteonidae – small sea snails.

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Hyponyms

  • (genus):

pupa

pupa

See also: Pupa, púpa, and pupă

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin

Noun

pupa

  1. Used as a specific epithet; resembling an insect in its pupal stage of development.

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English

Noun

pupa ‎(plural pupas or pupae or pupæ)

  1. an insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin pupa.

Noun

pupa f ‎(plural pupe)

  1. doll (child's toy)
  2. pupa

Latin

Etymology

Feminine gender of pūpus.

Alternative forms

Noun

pūpa f ‎(genitive pūpae); first declension

  1. girl, little girl
  2. doll, puppet

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative pūpa pūpae
genitive pūpae pūpārum
dative pūpae pūpīs
accusative pūpam pūpās
ablative pūpā pūpīs
vocative pūpa pūpae

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Latvian

pupas

Noun

pupa f (4th declension)

  1. bean

Declension

Noun

pupa m

  1. genitive singular form of pups

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpupa]

Noun

pupa f

  1. (somewhat childish) bum, rear, buttocks

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

pupa f (plural pupas)

  1. pupa (insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult)

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin root *puppāre, from puppa < Latin pupa. Compare Italian poppare, Catalan and Occitan popar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [puˈpa]

Verb

a pupa ‎(third-person singular present pupă, past participle pupat) 1st conj.

  1. (informal, transitive, or reflexive with accusative) to kiss
    Te pup dulce.

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Spanish

Noun

pupa f ‎(plural pupas)

  1. pupa
  2. bump, especially a cold sore
  3. (childish) boo-boo (pain)

Etymology

From Latin pupa ‎(“doll, little girl”)

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