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the pupa
noun
An insect in its development stage between a larva and an adult.
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Bless the pupa.
That group was the Pupa.
First the pupa, then the wings.Wordlessness.Wordlessness
After emerging from the pupa, the flies stop growing.
The limbs of the pupa are free (exarate).
We managed to extricate it and put the pupa in a jar.
Joey is forever being "dealt the pupa" — a kind of shorthand for humiliation, physical or sexual.
Since the pupa is immobile, the active life of the fly is passed as an adult.
When the adult emerges from the pupa, the wings expand to full size.
In some less-primitive groups the pupa retains the ability to move some appendages.
In a few groups the pupa has special stridulating rasps for sound production.
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