v. i.
n. [ See Puppy. ] (Zool.)
n.;
☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Coarctate pupa,
Obtected pupa
Masked pupa,
a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to a pupa, or the condition of a pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. (Zool.) To become a pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) the act of becoming a pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. ] (Zool.) A pupa. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Cider brandy. [ Local, U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pupa + -gerous. ] (Zool.) Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See Puppet, and cf. Pupil a scholar. ] (Anat.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. [ 1913 Webster ]
Pin-hole pupil (Med.),