pupa

/pyoo-puh/US // ˈpyu pə //UK // (ˈpjuːpə) //

蛹,蚕蛹,蛹虫草

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural pu·pae [pyoo-pee], /ˈpyu pi/, pu·pas.
- : an insect in the nonfeeding, usually immobile, transformation stage between the larva and the imago.

The biggest challenge was the silkworm pupa, which was large and segmented and just looked so … insecty.
In their wild journeyings on and on before spinning the pupa shroud, they fall victims in attempting to cross streams.
The pupa, distinguished by a large thoracic region, breathes through a pair of tubes on the thorax.
Pupa (Abida) secale is named from the Latin for rye, a grain of which the shell more or less resembles.
The larva and the active pupa or nymph are aquatic and are predaceous, as is also the adult.
There is even one tribe of insects which presents the strange anomaly of being born in the pupa state.