PUPAS
Noun
pupas
plural of pupa
Anagrams
• Suppa
Source: Wiktionary
PUPA
Pu"pa, n.; pl. L. Pup, E. Pupas. Etym: [L. pupa girl. doll, puppet,
fem. of pupus. Cf. Puppet.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually
immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
Note: 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. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral
shell. Coarctate, 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition