pupa
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- n an insect in the inactive stage of development (when it is not feeding) intermediate between larva and adult
- Finally, the pupa becomes an adult and tunnels its way out of the wood, leaving a large exit hole.
- At California's Stanford University last week Biologist Dietrich Bodenstein displayed a winged insect which was half immature pupa, half mature butterfly.
- The pupae never became adult moths, instead developed into a second kind of pupa.