Pupa /(?)/

Pu·pa

Pupa

n.

pl. Pupæ, Pupas

  1. Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage. (Zool.)
  2. A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell. (Zool.)

Phrases & Compounds
Coarctate 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.